DE BURE. THE curious collector of books will not be displeased to see a few inaccuracies of this excellent Bibliographer corrected, and a few deficiencies filled up. In the second volume of his "BIBLIOGRAPHIE INSTRUCTIVE, No. 5649, he describes LAS OBRAS DE DON BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS, printed at SEVILLE, POR SEBASTIAN TRUGILLO, Y JACOMO CROMBERGER, in 1552. He represents this most curious and remarkably scarce book, as containing only five traits of the truly christian and benevolent author. * But the genuine edition, of which there is a fine copy in the Cracherode Collection, contains eight tracts. The three not mentioned by DE BURE, are these which follow: 6 Pedayo de una carta y relacion. Sine anno. 7 Avisos y reglas para los confessores. Sevilla, por Trugillo, 1552. 8 Principia quædam ex quibus procedendum est in disputatione ad manifestandam et defendendam justitiam Yndorum. Impressum Hispali in edibus Sebastiani Trugilli. Sine anno. It may not perhaps be known to every collector of books, that there are two editions of this work, one of which is a counterfeit, having the same same date, and being printed in the same form. But they may easily be distinguished, as the first and genuine edition is printed in gothic cha-. racters. Bibliographie Instructive: Belles Lettres. No. 3581. OPUS QUOD DICITUR: RECOLLECTORIUM; EX. GESTIS ROMANORUM, ET MORALIZATUM CUM PLURIBUS APPLICATIS HISTORIIS, FABULIS, &c. Impr. Gouda, per Gerardum Leeu, Anno Domini, 1480. in fol. Of this very scarce and curious work, De Bure calls this the first book, but it is the second. See the catalogue of the Crevenna Library, No. 791, and the catalogue Raisonné de M. Crevenna. Vol. 6. p. 312. No. 4096. Belles Lettres as before. CABBALA DEL CAVALLO PEGASEO, con l'agiunta del' Asino Cilenico, descritta da Giordano Bruno Nolano. In Parigi, Baio, 1585. in 8vo. De Bure expresses a doubt, whether any such book as this is to be found, but there is certainly a copy in the library of M. Hoblin: see his catalogue, No. 2001. No. 4030. LUCIANI SAMOSATENSIS OPERA OMNIA, GRACE. Florentiæ, anno 1496, in fol. This is the first edition of Lucian, of which there is a magnificent copy on vellum, in the Duke of Marlborough's Library at Blenheim. No, No. 2217. CONSTANTINI LASCARIS BYZANTINI Grammatica Græca, Græcé ex recognitione Demetrii Cretensis, cujus præfixa epistola apparet in fronte voluminis. Mediolani, per Dionysium Paravisinum. Anno, 1476, in 4to. De Bure had seen a copy of this book in a private collection at Paris, which he calls defective, as wanting l'Epitre latine de Lascaris. For Lascaris read Demetrii Cretensis. No. 2276. Belles Lettres. JOANNIS DE JANUA Ordinis Fratrum Prædicatorum, SUMMA quæ vocatur CATHOLICON. opus impressum Moguntiæ per Johannem Fust et Petrum Schoyff her de Gernsheim, anno incarna cionis Dominice. 1460. in fol. This book has often been described, and also been the occasion of many learned and elaborate discussions. It is therefore somewhat surprising that De Bure's account of it is not more accurate. He represents it as beginning: Liber Catholicon incipit, whereas it commences thus: Incipit Suma quæ vocat Catholicon edita a Fratre Johanne de Spira, Ordinis fratrum Prædicatorum. No. 2333. Belles Lettres. De Bure describes the quarto edition of Longinus by Tollius, with the notes of Dacier, and the French version of Boileau, but he omits to make mention of the Editio Princeps of Lon ginus, ginus, a book of great rarity; it may be thus représented: DIONYSII LONGINI liber de orandi, sive sublimi orationis genere, a Franc. Robertello. Græce Basil Oporinus. 1554. 4to. No. 2413. CICERONIS EPISTOLE AD FAMILIARES Mediolani per Philippum de Lavagnia. Anno Domini, 1472. In fol. In contradiction to the authority of Maittaire, De Bure considers this edition as having no existence; at least, he says, that after mature inwestigation, he considers it as very doubtful. If the reader will consult the Pinelli Catalogue, Tom. 2. No. 3780, he will find the article. It is there well described, as of extraordinary rarity and value. It was purchased at the Pinelli sale for eighteen guineas, and is now in the Cracherode Collection. No. 2630. LUCRETII DE RERUM NATURA, LIBRI VI. EX EDITIONE ET CUM COMMENTARIIS DIONYSII LAMBINI. PARISIIS ROVILLIUS 1568 in 4to. un tome reliée en 2 vol. Exemplar impressum in membranis. The copy of this edition of Lucretius, in vellum, is represented by De Bure, as having been in the library of the Abbe De Rhotelin. He observes that he is ignorant into whose hands it afterwards passed. I can supply the lacuna by by informing the reader that it was in the pos session of M. Lamoignon, and is now in the Cracherode Collection. No. 2674. VIRGILII MARONIS OPERA VENETIIS APUD ALDUM. 1501. In 8vo. This is the Editio Princeps of Virgil from the Aldine Press, and preferable, as De Bure observes, to those subsequently printed in 1514 and 1527. There is a copy of this edition on vellum in the Cracherode Collection. But a most superb impression of this book, printed on vellum, with miniatures, is in the possession of Lord Spencer. It was purchased at the sale of the Bibliotheca Parisiana, a collection of books, said to have been made by a gentleman in France, for 741. 11s. De Bure omits to mention the following Aldus edition of Virgil. VIRGILIUS VENET. 1505. Mense Decembri ex ædibus Aldi. 8vo. The Cracherode Library also possesses a most beautiful Copy of this edition on vellum. No. 2752. OVIDII OPERA QUE EXTANT OMNIA Venetiis in ædibus Aldi 1502. 3 vol. in 8vo. A magnificent copy of this edition, perhaps the only one which exists on vellum, was purchased at the Parisian sale, by Lord Spencer for 631. No. |