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IN OLD FRENCH ARMORIAL MOROCCO BINDING. 



74 ELZEVIR PRESS PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS, et Libri Sapientiales, id est Proverbia. 



Ecclesiastes. Sapientia. Ecclesiasticus. Juxta editionera vulgatam Sixti V. jussu 

 editam, Lugduni, Apud. J. et D. Elseviros, 1653, izmo, fine engraved title depicting 

 David playing the harp, ruled in red throughout, VERY FINE LARGE COPY, OLD 

 FRENCH BLACK MOROCCO, sides blind tooled in compartments by triple fillets^ fleuron 

 at the outer corners of the inner compartment, the armorial bearings, with coronet of 

 the Later- Doby family of Paris on the inside, back tooled in compartments with centre 

 ornament, r.e., modern lettering pieces, 4 45 

 Not only a very desirable edition of the Psalter but a very rare example of the famous Elzevir 



Press, and more particularly so in the large size, 5 by 3-inches, and exceptionally interesting 



binding of the present copy. 



FIRST BOOKS PRINTED AT ETON. 



75 ETON GREGORIUS MAZIANZENUS (S.) IN JULIANUM INVECTIV/R DU^ (Graete) 



cum Scholiis Graecis nunc primum editis, et omnia ex Bibliotheca D. Henrici 

 Savilii edidit R. Montagu, Etonce, in Collegio Regali excudebat J. Norton, 1610, 

 Signature of " F. Wrangham, 1814" on title JOANNIS METROPOLITAN! 

 EUCHAITENSIS VERSUS jAMBisi (Gracce) nunc primum in lucem editi cura 

 Matth. Busti Etonensis, ibid., 1610, device on title, feiv letters on signature B^ 

 injured by ink stain, in i vol, sm. 4to, original calf, rebacked, RARE, 2 25 



THE FIRST TWO BOOKS PRINTED AT ETON, and the first in Greek characters. Printed with the 

 " Silver Type," the fount invented by Sir Henry Savile. 



76 FACETIAE BEBELIUS (Henricus) FACETIAE SUPERIORUM ^TATUM DICTA JOCOSA 



ET FACTA RIDICULA CONTINENTES, in libros tres digcstae, una cum Prognostico 

 perpetuo. Accesserunt illustrium virorum ioci et apophthegmata EX MACROBII, 

 POGII, ERASMI, ET ALIORUM MONUMENTIS COLLECTA, Francofurti, ex offidna 

 typographica N. Basscei, 1590, lamo, printer's device on title, few headlines just 

 shaved by binder, but a fine copy, red morocco extra, sides line tooled, back richly gilt, 

 deep inside dentelle borders, g.e., 303 



A rare edition of a very celebrated collection of Facetiae and the last edited by Bebel, those 

 published subsequently being edited by Friscklin. It was a very popular book passing through 

 many editions from 1542 to 1660. Bebel was professor of Belles-Lettres at Tiibingen in 1497, 

 and was one of the most noted literary men of his day . 



77 FACETIAE THRESOR DES RECREATIONS contenant Histoires Facetievses et 



Honnestes Propos, Plaisans et pleins de gaillardises, faicts et tours ioyeux, 

 Plusieurs beaux Enigmes, tant en vers qu'en prose et autres plaisanteries. Le tout 

 tire de divers Auteurs trop fameux, a Rouen, chez Jean Osmont, 1611, izmo, 

 name of former owners on title and p. 5, water stain on first 50 pages, fine large 



copy, PRETTILY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH VEAU FAUVE, sides line toolfd in 



gold in compartments, corner fleurons to the inner, and a delicately tooled ornamental 

 centrepiece^ back tooled in lines, with a floiver between each, g.e., holes for tie strings, 

 a little worn, SCARCE, 2 is 



78 FIREWORKS BABINGTON (John) PYROTKCHNIA, OR A DISCOURSE OF ARTIFICIAL 



FIRE-WORKS for Pleasure, in which the true grounds of that" Art are Plainly and 

 Perspicuously laid downe : Together with sundry such Motions both Straight and 

 Circular, performed by the helpe of Fire, as are not to be found in any other 

 Discourse of this kind, extant in any language. WHEREUNTO is ANNEXED A SHORT 

 TREATISE OF GEOIMETRIE. WRITTEN BY JOHN BABINGTON, GUNNER, AND STUDENT 

 IN THE MATHEMATICKS, London, T. Harper, for /?. Map, 1635, sm. folio, WITH 



BRILLIANT IMPRESSION OF THE RARE FRONTISPIECE BV Jo. DROESHOUT, finely 



engraved in compartments , one containing portrait of tJie author, the other devices and 

 implements used in firework displays, numerous interesting folding and other illustra- 

 tions in connection with the subject of the wo>k, names written on title, top of engraved 

 title just touched by binder, fine copy, handsomely bound in pann filed calf 'extra, y.e., 

 RARE, 4 45 



