DURANDUS.  RAT.  DIV.  OFFIC. Printed by Fust and Schoeffher. 1459.  Folio.  This book, which is always UPON VELLUM, was the Duke de La Valliere’s copy.  It is the thinnest I ever saw, but it is quite perfect.  The condition is throughout sound, and the margins appear to retain all their pristine amplitude.  It is bound in morocco.

FICHETI RHETORICA. Printed by Gering, &c.  Quarto.  This copy is UPON VELLUM, not indifferently illuminated:  but it has been cruelly cropt.

LUDOLPHUS.  DE TERRA SANCTA and ITINERE IHEROSO-LOMITANO. Without date or place. Folio.  I never saw this book, nor this work, before.  The text describes a journey to Jerusalem, undertaken by Ludolphus, between the years 1336 and 1350.  This preface is very interesting; but I have neither time nor space for extracts.  At the end:  “Finit feliciter libellus de itinere ad terram sanctam, &.”  This impression is printed in long lines, and contains thirty-six leaves.[126]

MAMMOTRECTUS. Printed by Schoeffher. 1470.  Folio.  Here are two copies; of which one is UPON VELLUM—­but the paper copy is not only a larger, but in every respect a fairer and more desirable, book.  The vellum copy has quite a foggy aspect.

NONIUS MARCELLUS. Without name of printer or place. 1471.  Folio.  This is the first edition of the work with a date, but the printer is unknown.  It is executed in a superior style of typographical elegance; and the present is as fine and white a copy of it as can possibly be possessed.  I think it even larger than the Goettwic copy.

PETRARCHA.  HISTORIA GRISELDIS. Printed by G. Zeiner. 1473.  Folio.  Whether this edition of the HISTORY OF PATIENT GRISEL, or that printed by Zel, without date, be the earliest, I cannot pretend to say.  This edition is printed in the roman type, and perhaps is among the very earliest specimens of the printer so executed.  It is however a thin, round, and scraggy type.  The book is doubtless of extreme rarity.  This copy was formerly Prince Eugene’s, and is bound in red morocco.

PHALARIDIS EPISTOLAE.  Lat. 1471.  Quarto.  This is the first time (if I remember rightly) that the present edition has come under my notice.  It is doubtless of excessive rarity.  The type is a remarkably delicate, round, widely spread and roman letter.  At the end is the colophon, in capital letters.

PHALARIDIS EPISTOLAE. Printed by Ulric Han. Without date. Folio.  This is among the rarest editions of the Latin version of the Epistles of Phalaris.  It is executed in the second, or ordinary roman type of Ulric Han.  In the whole there are thirty leaves; and I know not why this impression may not be considered as the first, or at least the second, of the version in question.

POGGII FACETIAE. Without name of Printer, Place, or Date. Folio.  It is for the first time that I examine the present edition, which I should not hesitate to pronounce the FIRST of the work in question.  The types are those which were used in the Eusebian Monastery at Rome.  A full page has twenty-three lines.  This is a sound, clean copy; in calf binding.