4a MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 



WITH EISEN'S ILLUSTRATIONS. 



203 VOLTAIRE (F. M. Arouet de) LA HENRIADE, a Pans, chez la Veuve Duchesne, 

 Saillant, etc., n.d. (1769) and 1770, 2 vols, 8vo, WITH FRONTISPIECE, ENGRAVED 

 TITLE, containing a medallion portrait of Voltaire, 10 FULL-PAGE PLATES AND 10 

 VIGNETTES AFTER DESIGNS BY EISEN, finely engraved by de Longueil, BRILLIANT 

 IMPRESSIONS, fine copy, old French tree calf, gold border on sides, back elaborately 

 gilt in compartments, g.e., 4 45 



204 VARAMUND (Ernest, of Friesland) DE FORORIBUS GALLICIS, Horrenda et 

 Indigna Admirallii Castillionei, Nobilium atque illustrium virorum csede, scelerata 

 ac inandita piorum strafe passim edita per complures Gallice ciuitates, sine vello 

 disci imine generis, sexus, astatis et conditionis hotninum : Vera et Simplex Narratio, 

 Edinburgh, anno Salutis humane, 1573. 410, water stained at top and a few leaves on 

 sides, but large copy, half stained calf, by Sangorski and Sutclifte, 2 2s 



A very interesting tract not only as treating of the Massacre of St. Barthomew from a 

 contemporary standpoint, BUT AS THE FIRST OF THE BOOKS WITH A SPURIOUS SCOTTISH 

 IMPRINT. Although dated Edinburgh the type is typically like that used iniParis at the time 

 of publication. The contents of the work, being against the Government, sufficiently explain 

 the reason of a fictitious imprint being used. 



205 VERGIL (Polydore) ANGLI/E HISTORIC LIBRI xxvi., Basilece,Jo. Bebelius, 1534, 

 FIRST EDITION, folio, printer's device on title and at end, TWO BEAUTIFUL WOODCUT 



BORDERS IN THE STYLE OF HOLBEIN AND NUMEROUS FINE LARGE' HISTORIATED 



INITIALS, tear in bottom margin of first 4 leaves, small hole in and name cut off title, 

 tiny wormhole from p. 207 to end, name of early owner on title, numerous marginal 

 annotations, some contemporary, tall copy, old calf, back broken at top and bottom, and 

 piece of leather torn out of front cover, 305 



Dedicated to Henry VIII. The author was born at Urbino about 1470, came to England about 

 1502 and was naturalised in 1510. His History of England, in this first edition brought down 

 to 1509, occupied him 28 years. As an authority it is valuable for the reign of Henry VII., 

 with whose aims and character the author thoroughly sympathised, and he realised fully the 

 changes which marked the passing of the middle ages. His method of writing history, too, was 

 far in advance of anything that England had then known, for he wrote on modern lines, 

 attempted to weigh authorities and told a connected story. 



206 VIRGIL PUBLII VIRGILII MARONIS OPERA, curis et studio S. A. Philippe, Lutefiae 

 Parisiorum, A. U. Coustelier, 1745, FINE PAPER COPY, 3 vols, sm. 8vo, WITH 



FRONTISPIECE AND 17 FINE PLATES AFTER COCHIN, ENGRAVED BY DUFLOS, and 2$ 



head and 20 tail pieces, unsigned, several of them repeated, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, 

 contemporary French mottled calf, triple gold fillet on sides, back gilt in compartments 

 with marguerite in the centre of each, the well-known bird ornament in the lower 

 compartment of each volume, g.e., BY J. A. DEROME, small crack in joint ef lower 

 cver of Vol. i, 2 2s 



207 VERON (John) A FRUTEFUL TREATISE OF PREDESTINATION and of the divine 

 providence of God, with an apology of the same, against the swynyshe gruntinge of 

 the epicures and atheystes of cure time. WHEREUNTO ARE ADDED A VERY 

 NECESSARY BORE AGAiNSTE THE FREE WYLL MEN, and another of the true justifica- 

 tion of faith, and of the good workes proceudynge of the same, made Dialogue wyse, 

 London, John Tisdale, n.d. (about 1563), FIRST EDITION, blflCfc ICttCl, 2 parts in i 

 vol, sm. sq. 8vo, title in admirable facsimile, flaw in margins of Qj of the \st part 

 and DI of the 2nd part, injuring side notes and a few letters of text, last leaf soiled 

 and written on, wormhole in lower back margin of firs I 62 leaves, but a very large 

 copy ivith some uncut margins and all the rare blank leaves, old limp vellum, with 

 fore-marginal flaps, loose, 355 



A very rare early work on that most fruitful subject of controversy : Predestination, Election and 

 Grace, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth by the famous protestant controversalist John Veron, who 

 was probably born at Sens in France, and naturalised in England in 1544. He was a student 

 and became a tutor at Cambridge, and in 1553 was committed to the Tower through the uproar 

 in connection with John Bradford at Paul's Cross. Nicknamed White-hair. Strype describes 

 him as a courageous and eloquent preacher. 



