DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 25 



Tower Hill," 10th January 1645. The date is wrongly given in 

 this tract as 18 January 1645. 



Milton, John : " Paradise lost. A Poem in ten books." 

 Printed by S. Simmons, 1669. The purchase of this copy 

 completes the Museum set of the six known issues of the first 

 edition of Paradise Lost, with the exception of the second. 



" Memoirs of the siege of Quebec." From the journal of a 

 French officer on board the Chezine Frigate. Translated by 

 Richard Gardiner, Captain of Marines in the Rippon. London, 

 1761. Only two ether copies of this book are known. 



Among the foreign Incunabula and later works the following 

 are of special interest : — 



" De Proeliis Alexandri Magni." Printed by the " Printer 

 of Dictys," at Cologne, about 1471. 



Antoninus : " Confessionale," Printed by Christopher 

 Arnold, Venice, 1473. The book is three years earlier in date 

 than any work of this printer at present in the Library. 



Hieronymus de Vallibus : " Jesuida, seu de Passione Christi." 

 Printed by G. Zainer, Augsburg, about 1473. 



Johannes de Imola : *' In constitutiones Clementinas." 

 Printed by Johann Gensberg, Rome, 1474. 



" De Secretis Mulierum." By Henricus de Saxonia or 

 Albertus Magnus. A very fine specimen of conjoint Roman 

 and Gothic types. The printer has not yet been identified, 

 but the book was probably printed at Naples about 1474. 



Perottus, Nicolaus : " Grammatica." Printed by Philippus 

 de Lignamine, Rome, 1474, 



Bollanus, Dominicus : " De conceptione Mariae Virginis " 

 Printed by Johann of Cologne and Johann Manthen, Venice, 

 1474 or 1475. 



" Sermonos Quadragesimales." Printed at the Monastery of 

 SS. Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg, in 1474 or 1475. 



The " Institutes " of Justinian. Printed by the Piinter 

 " apud Sanctum Marcum," at Rome, 1476. 



Valla, Laurentius : " De Lingua Latina." Printed by 

 Joannes Rubeus, Venice, 1476. 



Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence : " Summula Con- 

 fessionalis." Printed by Alfonso Fernandez de Corduba at 

 Valencia, 1477. The fourth book printed in Spain. 



Festus, Sextus : " De verborum significatione." Without 

 imprint, Venice, 1477 or 1478. 



Strassburg Breviary : " Pars Aestivalis." Printed on 

 vellum in January 1478. A beautiful specimen of German 

 typography. The printing of the book is usually ascribed to 

 Michael Reyser at Eichstadt, but it is almost certainly printed 

 by Georg Reyser, probably at Strassburg. 



Bonaventura, Saint: " Devote meditatione sopra la passione." 

 Printed by Leonhard Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeler, Milan, 

 1480. 



