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BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE

BERNARD QUARITCH.

18075 HORE BEATISSIME VIRGINIS MARIE AD LEGITIMŪ EBORACENSIS ECCLESIE RITUM, sm. 4to. woodcuts, wanting leaf H 8, fine copy in blue morocco extra, leather joints, gilt edges, by H. Walther, £150.

Rothomagi, G. Bernard et J. Cousin, 1517

The extraordinary rarity of all the York Service Books is too well-known to require any comment. Of this volume, no other copy has been recorded, and it is probably unique. One feature of especial interest is the great quantity of English matter which is found in it. There are long and explicatory headings, recounting, in English, and with much greater diffuseness than we see in other books of "Hours," the origin, nature, and object of the various prayers. There are several MS. notes which were written probably about 1550, and which betray the hand of a bitterly hostile Reformer. The absent leaf was missing more than a century ago, as a note to that effect appears at the bottom of the preceding page (probably in Herbert's handwriting of about the year 1760).

18076 KEMPIS. Cy comence le Liure tressalutaire Intitule De limitacion nostreseignr jesnerist (sic), sm. 4to. PRINTED ON VELLUM (only one other copy known) and ornamented with 15 MINIATURES FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS, leaf 39 cut out, a fine volume in old calf, with arms of N. J. Foucault in gold on sides, EXTREMELY RARE, £84.

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Paris, J. Lambert, 1493

The name of the printer and date are partially erased. The beauty of the paintings, the value of the book as a nearly unique vellum-impression, and the bit of literary history embodied in its title (copied below) invest this volume with a singularly interesting character. The portion of the intitulation given above is succeeded by the words which follow here :— "lequel a este par aucuns iusques a psent attribue a saint Bernard, ou maistre Jehan gerson. pose que soit autremēt. Quar lacteur dicelluy soubz nostre seignr fust vng venerable pere & tresdeuot religieux chanoine regle. viuat en son temps en obseruace reguliere Jouxte la regle monseigneur saint augustin nome frere thomas de Kempis. . . . Translate de latin en francois. . . ."

18077 MISSALE AD USUM ECCLESIÆ LINGONENSIS, sm. folio,

a Splendid Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum, containing the Gallican Missal of the use of Langres, and, from the escutcheons which appear on some of the pages, probably executed for JEAN D'AMBOISE, afterwards Bishop of Langres (1481-97); written on 154 leaves of pure vellum (size 12 in. by 9 in.), with numerous handsome borders composed of flowers, fruit, grotesque figures, birds, coats of arms, scrolls, &c. 25 large bordered initial letters, each historiated with a fine MINIATURE PAINTING, and several hundred smaller capital and initial letters in gold and colours, blue morocco, broad dentelle borders in gold, silk linings, gilt edges, by Derome le jeune, with his ticket, £80. About 1470

This volume is not the complete Missal, and is singularly arranged. The Commune Sanctorum is placed at the beginning, followed by the second part (Easter to Epiphany) of the Ordinarium de Tempore, and the Canon of the Mass stands separately at the end of the book.

18078 COTELERII (J. B.) Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta e MSS. codicibus, Gr. et Lat. 3 vols. 4to. old calf, £2. Lut. Paris, 1677-86

The Monumenta consist of inedited opuscula by the early fathers of the Church.

18079 ESTIENE (Henri) Introduction au Traité de la Conformité des Merveilles anciennes avec les modernes, ou Traité preparatif à l'Apologie pour Herodote, 12mo. vellum, £2. 5s

1566

A fierce attack upon the manners of the time, especially those of the Catholic ecclesiastics.

18080 GINSBURG (Christian D.) the Kabbalah, its doctrines, development, and literature, 8vo. cloth, 5s 1865

18081 RIBADENEIRA (Petri) Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu, opus inchoatum anno 1602, continuatum à Phil. Alegambe usque ad annum 1642, recog. et productum ad annum 1675, a Nathanaele Sotvello, folio, oaken boards, covered in stamped pigskin, slightly wormed, £2. 15s

Romæ, 1676

CLASSICS:

GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE:

Modern Imitations and Compositions in

those Languages; Critical Apparatus

for the Study of the Classics, and

Works on the Archæology

and History of Greece

and Rome.

I. GREEK WRITERS, FROM HOMER AND
HESIOD (X-IX CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST) TO
JOANNES AND CONSTANT. LASCARIS
(A.D. 1500), AND TRANSLATIONS.

18082 ACHILLES TATIUS de Leucippes et Clitophontis Amoribus, gr. et
lat. ed. F. Jacobs, 8vo. hf. morocco, uncut, 78 6d Lips. 1821
18083 ADAGIA sive Proverbia Græcorum ex Zenobio, Diogeniano, et
Suidæ collectaneis, gr. et lat. edente A. Schotto, 4to. old calf gilt,
Antverpiæ, 1612

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See post ADAGIA in Section III.

com-

18084 ÆLIANI variæ Historia libri xiii; ex Heraclide

mentarium; Polemonis Physionomia, etc. Græce, small folio,

LARGE PAPER (a wormhole through a few leaves), bright old calf

gilt, with the Marlborough arms on sides, VERY RARE, £10. 10s

See also post SCRIPTORES DE RE MILITARI.

Romæ, 1545

18085 ESCHINES. Græciæ excellentium Oratorum Eschinis et Demos-

thenis, Orationes adversariæ, Græce (edidit J. Reuchlinus), sm.

4to. old calf, from the Sunderland library, £2.

Haganoæ, ex acad. Anshelmiana, 1522

18086 ÆSCHYLI Tragoedia septem, folio, LARGE PAPER, citron morocco
extra, silk fly-leaves, gilt edges, £7. 78 Glasguæ, Foulis, 1795

"Of this splendid work it is said that only fifty-two copies were printed,
and of the LARGE PAPER only eleven."-Dibdin.

18087 SCHLYLI Agamemnon, a Tragedy taken from Eschylus (tran-

slated by Edward Fitzgerald), sm. 8vo. first edition, sd. 12s

Privately printed, n. d.

18088

the same, sm. 4to. second edition, cloth, rare, 15s

1876