4865 VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, 8vo. vellum, 78 6d Lugd. Bat., 1719 The edition of 1719 is a very excellent one; both Ernesti and Harwood give it a very high character. It contains the pure text of the Editio Princeps. 4866 VELVET Cushion, by J. W. Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow, post 8vo. half calf, neat, 38 "This work, frequently reprinted, occasioned much controversy."-Lowndes. 1814 4867 VENEER'S (S.) Exposition of the XXXIX. Articles of the Church of England, frontispiece, 2nd edition, 2 vols. 8vo. old calf, neat, 78 6d C. Rivington, 1730 4868 VENETIA et SAVOIA.-Avviso di Parnasso, nel quale si racconta la povertâ, e miseria, dove è guiuta la Republica di Venetia et il Duca di Savoia, scritto da un curiosa Novellista Spagnolo, con alcune annotationi per Valerio Fulvio, tradotto dalla lingua Spagnuola, in Italiana, 4to. old boards, 10s 6d In Antopoli, nella Stamperia Regia, 1621 This curious little volume has 2 other tracts in it. I. entitled, Castigo Essemplare de' Calunniatori, Avviso di Parnasso di Valerio Fulvio Savoiano, dedicated to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy, 20 pages; and II. Vita di F. Bartolomeo dalla Casa, Vescovo di Chiapa, 1538. Both these Tracts are printed at Antopoli, (most likely a feigned name as it is not in Dr. Cotton's list) in the same year as the first Tract, 1621.-Neither of these Treatises are to be found in Haym. Sketches from Venetian History, compiled from Sismondi and Daru, plates, 2 vols. 18mo. cl., 5s (cost 10s) Fam. Lib., 1831 Venice under the Yoke of France and of Austria, with Memoirs of the Courts, Governments, and People of Italy, by a Lady of Rank, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 9s (pub. at 21s) 1824 Contains anecdotes of the Buonaparte family. 4871 VENTOUILLAC'S (L. T.) French Librarian; or Literary Guide to the best French Works, with Bibliographical Notices, 8vo. half morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, 108 1829 "Contains much interesting information respecting French literature."-Lowndes. 4872 VENUTI (Abate Ridolfino) descrizione Topografica delle Antichita di Roma, numerous plates, 2 vols. 4to. fine copy in Italian vellum, gilt, £1 188 Roma, 1824 This, the 3rd and best edition, is by Stefano Piale; the plates are by Piranesi. 4873 VERGILII (Polydori, Urbinatis) Anglica Historicæ libri XXVI., 2 clever wood cut borders by Hans Holbein, folio, calf, neat, £1 18 Basilea, apud Io. Bebelium, 1534 This book is interesting as being the 1st edition and dedicated to K. Henry VIII., and published during the time he was Dean of Wells. The purity of his language is generally allowed, and he excelled most of the writers of his age for elegance and clearness of style. It is necessary to supply a chasm of almost 70 years in our History, including particularly the lives of Edw. IV. and V. 4874 de Rerum Inventoribus libri VIII., small thick 8vo. newly bound in calf, neat, 78 6d Argentorati, 1606 4875 VERNON'S (E. J.) Guide to the Anglo-Saxon Tongue, the Grammar after Rask, post 8vo. cloth, 3s 6d (pub. at 5s 6d) 1850 4876 VERSTEGAN'S (Richard) Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, concerning the Most Noble and Renowned English Nation, fine impressions of the plates, small 4to. FIRST EDITION, old binding, RARE, £1 48 Antwerp, by Robert Bruney, 1605 With the book-plate of Edmund Horrex. This first edition, dedicated to King James I. with Introductory Complimentary Verses, is a very scarce little book; the impressions of the plates in it being much superior to the more recent ones; but it is not only curious but very valuable as containing the rudiment of Mr. Somner's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, the surnames of our ancient Families, &c. Oldys has analysed it well. See his British Librarian. 4877 VERSTEGAN'S (Richard) Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, plates, 8vo. calf, neat, scarce, 78 6d 4879 With the autograph of "Caesaris De Missy, Berolinensis.” 1653 This is a valuable and a learned work, see Bishop Nicolson. It has much commendatory Poetry by Thomas Shelton, Cornelius Kilian, Richard Stanihurst, and others. 4878 VERTOT (M. l'Abbé de) Historie Critique de l'Etablissement des Bretons dans les Gaules, et de leur dépendance de Rois de France, 2 vols. 12mo. old calf, 68 Paris, 1720 History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, now of Malta, Englished, 5 vols. 12mo. half calf, neat, 78 6d Edinburgh, 1770 4880 VETUS TESTAMENTUM Græcum, ex Versione Septuaginta interpretum, 3 vols. 12mo. cloth, 148 Oxonii, e typog. Acad., 1848 VETUSTISSIMORUM et Sapientiss. Comicorum L., quorum opera integra non extant, Sententiæ, quæ supersunt, Gr. et Lat., cum uniuscujusque Poetæ Vita, &c. per Jac. Hertelium, small thick 8vo. of 864 pages, old binding, 88 Basilia, 1560 4881 The Sententiæ of Menander, Philemon, Diphilus, Apollodorus, Posidippus, Epicharmas, Cratinus, Plato, Phryníchus, Pherecratis, Theopompus, Alexides, Antiphanes, Eubulus, and many other uncommon authors are here collected. 4882 VIALE (Salvador) Dianomachia, Poemetto Eroi-comico, plates, 8vo. 250 pages, sewed, 38 Parigi, 1823 4888 VICUS (Eneas) Ex libris XXIII. Commentariorum in Vetera Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata, portrait of Cæsar and 4 plates, 4to. parchment, (wants the engraved title which is written in) very neat, and clean, 108 Venetiis, Aldus, 1560 Collates by Renouard; a fine, large, and tall copy in a handsome roman type. 4884 VIDÆ (M. Hieronymi, Alba Episc. et Comitis) Constitutiones Synodales eidem Civitati ac Diocesi præscriptæ, 4to. limp vellum, VERY RARE, injured by damp, 10s 6d Cremona, apud V. Conctum, 1562 This rare Treatise was printed at this elegant latin Poet's birth-place 4 years before his death which happened at his See at Alba. He attended the Council of Trent in his Episcopal character, and this volume contains the Constitutions consequent upon that event. 4885 VIENNA—Lines Engraven in Letters of Gold upon the Gates of Vienna, recording the Successes of the Austrians against the Turks and French, broadside, printed in red, 38 6d 1684 4886 VIETA (Francisci) Angulares Sectiones, opera Alexandri Andersoni Scoti, 4to. limp vellum, a fine copy, 78 6d Parisiis, 1615 Dedicated to Charles, Prince of Wales, by this learned Scotch Mathematician, who has added to this book Demonstrations of his own. Not in Lowndes. 4887 VILLEGAS (Alfonso) Nuovo Legendario della Vita di Maria Vergine, immacolata Madre di Dio, delli Santi Patriarchi, et Profete dell' Antico Testamento, folio, 90 wood cuts, old vellum, neat, 128 In Venetia, G. Ciotti, 1596 This is Villega's Flos Sanctorum translated into Italian by D. Guilio Cesare. 4888 VILLEQUIER-La Charge du Seigneur de Villequier, comme il l'a baillé par escrità Mons. le Duc Casimir, et response de mondit Seigneur le Duc à la dite Charge, 1577.-Response faite par tres-illustre et Excellent Prince Monsr. Guillaume Landgrave de Hessen, au Sieur de Villequier Ambassadeur du Roy de France, 18 Mars, 1577.-Apologie des Eglises de France, contre les fausses Accusations de Villequier, Vers les tres-illustres Princes d'Alemagne, 1567.-Recueil de tout ce qui s'est Negotié en la Compagnie du tiers Estat de France, en l'assemblee generalle des trois Estats, assignez par le Roy en la Ville de Bloys, 15 Nov., 1576.-Sommaire discours, des justes causes et raisons, qui ont contraint les Estats Generaux des Pays bas de pourvoir à leur deffence, contre le Seigneur Don Jehan d'Austriche, En Anvers, par Guillaume Sylvius, 1577.-S'Ensuyvent les Lettres de Don Jean d'Autriche et autres, desquelles est faite mention au present discours; sur prinses à diverses fois et en divers lieux, trad. d'Espagnol en François.-L'Union des Etats Generaux des Pays Bas, assemblez a Bruxelles, dont l'original est signé, tant par les Prelats, Nobles, Villes, &c.-Brieve et Veritable Histoire de la Prinse d'Anvers et du cruel Meurtre, embrasement de feu, et autres actes inhumains des Espagnols, le 4 jour de Novembre, 1576, trad. de Flamand en François, 1577.-8 Tracts in 1 vol. small 8vo. old vellum, VERY RARE, £2 28 With the exception of one, these VERY RARE Tracts relating to the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and other matters, have no places where printed mentioned, or the printer's names. 4889 VINCI'S (Leonardo da) Treatise on Painting, Englished with a Life of the Author, portrait and plates, 8vo. old calf, very neat, 68 1721 4890 another edition, portrait and plates, fine copy in calf, gilt, 78 6d 1796 4891 VINDICIÆ Gallicæ, adversus Alexandrum Patricium Armacanum, 18mo. old binding, 28 6d Parisiis, 1638 4892 VINNII (Arnoldi) in IV. libros Institutionum Imperialium commentarius, 2 vols. in 1, 4to. old calf, 68 Lugduni, 1683 4893 VINTIMIGLIA (Giovanni, Messinese) de Poeti Siciliani Libro Primo, 4to. 453 pages besides the Index, old limp vellum, 10s 6d Napoli, Sebast. d'Alecci, 1663 According to Haym, it appears that this is all that was published of this work. "Nel quale si tratta de' Poeti Bucolici, e dell' origine, e progresso della Poesia nell' Isola di Sicilia." 4894 VIPERANI (Io. Antonii) de Rege et Regno liber, ejusdem Viperani de Historia scribenda liber, 8vo. old vellum, 78 6d Antverpia, C. Plantini, 1569 An author I cannot find mentioned in bibliographical books. 4895 VIRGILII OPERA, nunc emendatiora, 18mo. old calf, neat, £1 58 L. Bat., Elzevir, 1636 The true edition, as described by Dibdin. Nic. Heinsii recensuit, 18mo. neat, 38 6d Amst., Elzevir, 1676 "Universally allowed to be the most correct and "A very correct edition" in MS. cum Notis Variorum et Masvicii, plates after Houbraken, 2 vols. 4to. old calf, gilt, £1 18 Leovardia, 1717 "This is certainly a sumptuous edition, various readings and the Erythræan Index are contained in this beautiful work."-Dr. Dibdin. Codex Antiquissimus in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurentiana adservatus, 4to. calf, very neat, 10s 6d Florentiæ, typis Mannianis, 1741 This is a fac-simile of the famous CODEX MEDICEUS, printed throughout in CAPITAL LETTERS. It is conceived to be more ancient than the CODEX VATICANUS, which is 1300 years old. 4899 VIRGILII OPERA, ad usum Delphini, accessit Clavis MetricoVirgiliana, operâ J. Carey, 8vo. bound, 5s (cost 128) Londini, 1822 ad fidem editionis C. G. Heyne, small 8vo. boards, 68 4900 Harding, Mavor, et Lepard, 1824 "An edition as accurate in its readings and punctuation, as it is beautiful in type, paper, and printing, a worthy companion to the Horace and Terence, published by the same firm."-Dr. Dibdin. 18mo. cloth, 2s 6d But few copies of this splendidly printed volume, by William Nicol, were struck off at 5 Guineas per copy, this was the late Bp. of London, Dr. Blomfield's, copy. Georgicks and Bucolicks, Latin and English, with Notes by John Martyn, F.R.S., plates, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, uncut, fine state, 148 1746-49 "When a schoolmaster, I recommended this work (the Bucolics) to my scholars, as I also did the Georgics by Martyn, and not only allowed, but advised them to bring these books to lesson. The notes must have assisted, and the English translation on the sides, could protect no boy from my searching questions."-Dr. Parr's Catalogue, p. 227. Bucolica et Georgica, ex antiquis monumentis illustrata, cura et .. This is the 1st edition. Andrea Lori did the Bucolics;-Bernardino Daniello the Georgics;-Alessandro Sansedoni, Hippolito de' Medici, Bernardino Borghesi, Lodovico Martelli, Tommaso Porcacchi, Allessandro Piccolomini, G. Betussi, L. Ghini, B. Minerbetti, L. Domenichi, B. Danielo, and P. Mini the Eneid. The volume contains above 700 pages. L'Opere, cioè, la Bucolica, la Georgica, e l'Eneide, commentate in Lingua Volgare Toscana, da Giovanni Fabrini, Carlo Malatesta e Filippo Venuti, large folio, Italian vellum, clean and neat, £1 18 Venezia, Paolo Baglioni, 1710 This has the Latin Text, as well as the Commentaries. From Lord Calthorpe's collection. L'Eneide di, tradotta in Rime Volgare per Giovan Paulo Vasio, small thick 8vo. unpaged (title page in MS.) calf, very neat, 108 Venezia, 1532 or 1538 As this book wants the printed title page, we cannot ascertain its date, but it is one of the above, as there were but 2 editions by Vasio, or rather as Haym asserts, by Tommasino Cambiatore, of Reggio. Works, translated into English Verse by Christopher Pitt and Joseph Warton, with Notes, &c., by Holdsworth, Spence, and others, plates, 4 vols. 12mo. very nice set in old calf, gilt, 8s 1763 "A work of the first excellence, and has not been exceeded by any subsequent attempt."-Dr. A. Clarke. Holdsworth's Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil, published with Notes, &c., by Mr. Spence, and two Vocabularies, maps and plates, 4to. good copy in calf, 108 6d Dodsley, 1768 "An ingenious and judicious work."-Lowndes. "He made more journeys to Italy than perhaps any gentleman of his age; and studied Virgil's works in particular, on the very spot where he wrote them."-Spence's Anecdotes. At the end is the Latin Poem "Muscipula." 4910 VIRGILIUS.-Vuillichius (Jodocus) Chronologia in Æneida Virgilii, -de Verborum et de rerum copia comparanda, 2 vols. in 1, sm. 8vo. old rough calf, scarce, 68 Francforti, par I. Eichorn, 1551 The last Treatise is dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney. 4911 VITALIS (Lud.) Lectiones Variæ Juris Civilis, 12mo. vellum, 48 Lipsia, 1597 4912 VITRUVIO, I Dieci libri dell' Architettura, tradutti et commentati da Monsignor D. Barbaro, Patriarca d'Aquileia, plates, large folio, stained, old calf, neat, £1 58 In Venezia, per F. Marcolini, 1556 This is Barbaro's first edition in folio, which Brunet says is "la plus belle." "Edizione rara, e Stimata.”—Haym. 4913 il Medesimo, plates, 4to. vellum, 10s 6d In Vinetia, F. de Franceschi Senese, 1584 4914 il Medesimo, numerous plates, 4to. old calf, gilt, 10s 6d ib., 1584 4915 VIVIANI (Vincentio) de Maximis et Minimis Geometrica divinatio in V. Conicorum Apollonii Pergæi adhuc desideratum, folio, old binding, 98 Florentia, 1659 "Cet ouvrage savant se rencontre difficilement. Vendu 15 fr. Labey."-Brunet. Apollonius Pergæus flourished about 30 years later than Archimedes, and 60 after Euclid.-Vincentio Vivani, born at Florence in 1621, was the disciple of the illustrious Galileo. In restoring the 5th Book of Apollonius's Conic Sections it was found that he had more than divined; as he seemed superior to Apollonius himself. See Chalmers, &c. 4916 VIVIS (Joannis Ludovici) Linguæ Latina Exercitatio, Lugduni, apud Gryphium, 1542.-Catonis Disticha de Moribus, cum Scholiis D. Erasmi, eadem Græcè, à Maximo Planude à Latino Versa, Lugduni, apud G. Beringum, 1544.-Philippi Melancthonis de Corrigendis studiis Sermo; Rodolphi Agricola de formandis Studiis Epistola doctiss.; De Miseriis Pædagogorum Oratio, Parisiis, R. Stephani, 1537.-in 1 vol. 8vo. very fine clean copies, in the original calf gilt, 188 V.Y. L. Vivis was invited into England in 1523, by Cardinal Wolsey, he was afterwards appointed tutor to the young Princess, afterwards Queen Mary, daughter to K. Henry VIII. 4917 VIZANI (Pompeo, Gentilhuomo Bolognese,) I due Ultimi libri delle Historie della sua Patria, small 4to. very fine copy, in old calf, gilt, 78 6d Bologna, G. Rosii, 1608 These are books XI. and XII., and carry the history from 1531 to 1598. Books I. to X. were printed in 1596. 4918 VLIELAND'S (J. N.) Complete Course of Study, for Englishmen to obtain the French Language at Home (with the Tables,) 8vo. boards, 58 6d (pub. at 16s 6d) 4919 4920 4921 4922 1827 Norwich, 1834 1850 1845 Norwich, 1839 Le Glaneur Français, 12mo. cloth, 18 6d First Studies in Italian, 12mo. cloth, 18 4923 VOCABULA Rei Nummariæ Ponderum et Mensurarum Græca, Latina, Ebraica quorum intellectus omnibus necessarius est, collecta ex Budei, J. Camerarii et Phil. Melancthon Annotationibus; additæ sunt appellationes Quadrupedum, Insectorum, Piscium, &c., collectæ à P. Ebero et C. Peucero, 12mo. fine copy in old calf, 128 Witebergæ, 1552 At the end of this rare little volume is another Tract entitled "Priscorum Numismatum ad Nurembergensis Monetæ Valorem facta æstimatio Bibibaldo Pirckeymero authore." Tubinga, per Huldenrichum Morhardum, 1533. It contains besides three Treatises by Andrew Alciat, Budæus, and Philip Melancthon, on the same subjects. |