DEPARTMENT OF FEINTED BOOKS. 25 



Albertus Magnus " De Animalibus," one of the four 

 books known to have been printed by Simon Chardella when 

 working independently at Rome between the years 1475 and 

 1478. 



Angelus de Ubaldis, " Lectura super Codice," printed by 

 Martin Huss at Lyons, 1478. A fine copy in an early pigskin 

 binding. 



''Miracoli della Madonna," printed by Paolo da Ferrara 

 at Treviso, 1481. ^ 



" Laude del excellentissimo Misier Lunardo Justiniano, 

 patricio venetiano," printed by Bernardinus Celerius at 

 Venice, 1483. 



Sinthen, Jan van, " Composita verborum," Delft, 1488. 



" Statuta Brixife," Brescia, 1490. With a fine woodcut 

 title page. 



" Die gulden Letanien/' Antwerp, 1492. 



Albertanus, " Die Conste om te leeren spreken ende 

 swijghen," Deventer, 1496. 



Bottonus, Bernardus " Casus Longi super Decretales," 

 printed by Claude Giboleti, a printer hitherto unrepresented 

 in the Library, Lyons, 1497. 



" Evangelia per totum annum," Brescia, 1498. An edition 

 hitherto unknown. 



Of books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the 

 most important acquisitions have been : — 



Bradwardinus " Mathematica," Valencia, 1503. Interest- 

 ing as being the only - edition of any of the works of 

 Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury, July- 

 August 1349, printed elsewhere than at Paris. 



Leonardo Giustiniani, " Opera," 19 parts in 2 vols. 

 Brescia, 1506, a book of which very few perfect copies are 

 known. The present copy has a remarkably fine binding and 

 goffered edges. 



Raynolde, Thomas. "The Byrth of Mankynde," London, 

 1545. Illustrated with copper-plate engravings of English 

 workmanship. 



" Epitre envoyee aux Angloys," Rouen, 1557. A political 

 pamphlet, purporting to be translated from the English, 

 setting forth the advantages to England of a French rather 

 than a Spanish alliance. 



Rich, Barnaby. " The strange and wonderful aduentures 

 of Don Simonides," London, 1581. 



Lewkenor, Sir Lewis. " The resolved Gentleman." Lon- 

 don, 1594. The only English version of the romance of 

 "" Le Chevalier delibere," by Olivier de La Marche. 



" The Military Discipline," London, 1623. V\^ith interest- 

 ing engravings of military exercises. 



