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CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS.
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Peter de Cremona.

144. Dante, Divina Commedia. Folio. Venice, 1491—Society of Antiquaries.

Manfred de Strevo.

145. Boccaccio Ceuealogiæ Deorum. Woodcuts. Folio. Venice, 1497—Society of Antiquaries.

Andrea Bonettis di Papia.

146. Ubertinus de Casalis, Arbor vitæ crucifixæ Jesu. First initial illuminated. Folio. Venice, 1485—Mr. Yates.

Thomas de Blavis.

147. Ciceronis Opera. Folio. Venice, 1488—Mr. Yates.

Hieronymus de Pergaminis.

148. Biblia Latina. 8vo. Venice, 1497—Mr. Yates.

Barzalerius.

149. Herodiani Historia. 4to. Bologna, 1493—Mr. Yates.

Steffan Planck.

150. Pontificalis ordinis Liber; rubricated, with music. Folio. Rome, 1485—Society of Antiquaries.

151. Mirabilia Urbis Romæ. Woodcuts. 16mo. Rome, 1500—Mr. Addington.

The story of Pope Joan occurs in this curious book, and some strange legends of Virgil, and the magical arts he was said to practise.

Bartholomeus de Zanis; printed for the Giunti.

152. Valerius Maximus. Folio. Venice, 1508—Mr. Yates.

153. Catalogus Sanctorum Petri de Natalibus; a very fine copy Folio. Venice, 1506— Mr. Waller.

Cesare Arrivabene.

154. Johannis de Ketham Fasciculus Medicinæ; curious woodcuts in the style of the "Poliphilo," and said to be by Bellini; the second or third edition of this curious anatomical treatise. Folio. Venice 1522 —Mr. Fisher.

PORTUGAL—LISBON.

155. Commentary on the Pentateuch: in Hebrew characters: the first book printed at Lisbon: no printer's name. Folio. Lisbon 1489 —Ellis and Green.

ENGLAND.

William Caxton: born "in Kente in the Weeld," cir. 1422 d. 1491; buried in the churchyard of St. Margaret's, Westminster. He commenced to print in England in the year 1477, his first book being the "Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers." He had previously, it is supposed, printed at Bruges, "Le Recueil des Histoires de Troye;" the same in English—being the first English book ever printed;—and the "Chess Book." See Blades, vol. i. p. 60.

156. Le Recueil des Histoires de Troyes: "composé en l'an de grace