SUIDAS, Gr. 1499.  Folio. 2 vols.  This editio princeps of Suidas is always, when in tolerable condition, a wonderfully striking book:  a masterpiece of solid, laborious, and beautiful Greek printing.  But the copy under consideration—­which is in its pristine boards, covered with black leather—­was LAMBECIUS’S OWN COPY, and has his autograph.  It is, moreover, one of the largest, fairest, and most genuine copies ever opened.

TACITUS. Printed by I. de Spira. Folio.  Edit.  Prin.  This is the whitest and soundest copy, of this not very uncommon book, which I have seen.  It has however lost something of its proper dimensions by the cropping of the binder.

TERENTIUS. Printed by Mentelin, without date. Folio.  Editio Princeps.  Of exceedingly great rarity.  The present copy, which is in boards—­but which richly deserves a russia or morocco binding—­is a very good, sound, and desirable copy.

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Printed by Schoeffher. 1472.  Fol.  UPON VELLUM; a charming, sound copy.  This book is not very uncommon upon vellum.

VIRGILIUS. Printed by Mentelin. Without date. Folio.  Perhaps the rarest of all the early Mentelin classics; and probably the second edition of the author.  The present is a beautiful, white, sound copy, and yet probably somewhat cropt.  It is in red morocco binding.  Next to the very extraordinary copy of this edition, in the possession of Mr. George Hibbert, I should say that this was the finest I had ever seen.

——­ Printed by V. de Spira. 1470.  Folio.  It is difficult to find a thoroughly beautiful copy of this very rare book.  The present is tolerably fair and rather large, but I suspect washed.  The beginning is brown, and the end very brown.

——­ Printed by the Same. 1471.  Folio.  This copy is perhaps the most beautiful in the world of the edition in question.  It has the old ms. signatures in the corner, which proves how important the preservation of these witnesses is to the confirmation of the size and genuineness of a copy of an old book.  No wonder the French got possession of this matchless volume on their memorable visit to Vienna in 1805 or 1809.  It was bound in France, in red morocco, and is honestly bound.  This is, in short, a perfect book.

——­ Printed by Jenson. 1475.  Folio.  A very fine, crackling copy, in the old wooden binding; but the beginning and end are somewhat stained.

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AENEAS SYLVIUS DE DUOBUS AMANTIBUS.  Without date.  Quarto.  This is the only copy which I have seen, of probably what may be considered the FIRST EDITION of this interesting work.  It has twenty-three lines in a full page, and is printed in the large and early roman type of Gering, Crantz, and Friburger.  Caesar and Stoll doubtless reprinted this edition.  In the whole, there are forty-four leaves.  The present is a fair sound copy.