PSALTERIUM.  Latine. Without Printer’s name or Date. Folio. This is doubtless a magnificent book, printed in the gothic letter, in red and black, with musical lines not filled up by notes.  The text has services for certain Saints days.  What rendered this volume particularly interesting to my eyes, was, that on the reverse of the first leaf, beneath two lines of printed text, (in the smaller of two sizes of gothic letter) and two lines of scored music in red, I observed an impression of the very same copper-plate of coat-armour, which I had noticed in the Wurtzburg Missal of 1482, at Oxford, described in the Bibliographical Decameron, vol. i. p. 30.  Although M. Bartsch had noticed this copper-plate, in its outline character, in the above previously described Wurtzburg Missal, he seemed to be ignorant of its existence in this Psalter.  The whole of this book is as fresh as if it had just come from the press.

TESTAMENTUM NOV.  Bohemice. Without Date. Folio.  This is probably one of the very rarest impressions of the sacred text, in the XVth century, which is known to exist.  It is printed in the gothic type, in double columns, and a full page contains thirty-six lines.  There are running titles.  The text, at first glance, has much of the appearance of Baemler’s printing at Augsbourg; but it is smaller, and more angular.  Why should not the book have been printed in Bohemia?  This is a very clean, desirable copy, in red morocco binding.

TURRECREMATA I. DE.  In LIBRUM PSALMORUM. Printed at Crause in Suabia. Folio.  This, and the copy described as being in the Public Library at Munich, are supposed to be the only known copies of this impression.  Below the colophon, in pencil, there is a date of 1475:  but quaere upon what authority?  This copy is in most miserable condition; especially at the end.

ANCIENT CLASSICAL AUTHORS.

AESOPUS.  Gr.  Quarto.  EDITIO PRINCEPS.  A sound and perfect copy:  ruled.

——­ Ital. 1491.  Quarto.  In Italian poetry, by Manfred de Monteferrato.

——­ 1492.  Quarto.  In Italian prose, by the same.  Of these two versions, the Italian appears to be the same as that of the Verona impression of 1479:  the cuts are precisely similar.  The present is a very sound copy, but evidently cropt.

APULEIUS. 1469. Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Folio.  Editio Princeps.  This copy is UPON VELLUM.  It is tall and large, but not so fine as is the following article: 

——­ Printed by Jenson. 1472.  Folio.  A fine sound copy; in red morocco binding.  Formerly belonging to Prince Eugene.