Berlinghieri. Geografia. Without Place or Date. Folio.  Prima Edizione.  It does the heart good to gaze upon such a copy of so estimable and magnificent a production as the present.  This book belonged to Prince Eugene, and is bound in red morocco.  It is quite perfect—­with all the copper-plate maps.

Boccaccio. Il Decamerone. Printed by Zarotus. 1476.  Folio.  This is an exceedingly rare edition of the Decameron.  It is executed in the small and elegantly formed gothic type of the printer, with which the Latin AEsop, of the same date, in 4to, was printed.  Notwithstanding this copy is of a very brown hue, and most cruelly cut down—­as the illuminated first page but too decisively proves—­it is yet a sound and desirable book.

This is the only early edition, as far as I had an opportutunity of ascertaining, which they appear to possess of the Decameron of Boccaccio.  Of the Philocolo, there is a folio edition of 1488; and of the Nimphale there is a sound and clean copy of a dateless edition, in 4to., without name of place or printer, which ends thus—­and which possibly may be among the very earliest impressions of that work: 

  Finito il nimphale di fiesole
    che tracto damore.

Caterina da Bologna. Without Date or name of Printer. Quarto.  This is a very small quarto volume of great rarity; concluding with some poetry, and some particulars of the Life of the female Saint and author.  It appears to have wholly escaped Brunet.

  Incomezao alcune cose d’la uita d’la sopra
  nominata beata Caterina.

There are neither manuals, signatures, nor catchwords.  This volume looks like a production of the Bologna or Mantua press.  I never saw another copy of this curious little work.

Caterina da Siena Legendi di. Printed in the Monastery of St. James, at Florence. 1477.  Quarto.  This is the edition which Brunet very properly pronounces to be “excessively rare.”  It is printed in double columns, in a small, close, and scratchy gothic type.  On the 158th and last leaf, is the colophon.

Dante. Printed by Neumister. 1472.  Folio.  PRIMA EDIZIONE.  This copy is ruled, but short, and in a somewhat tender condition.  Although not a first rate copy, it is nevertheless desirable; yet is this book but a secondary typographical performance.  The paper is always coarse in texture, and sombre in tint.

Dante. 1481.  Folio.  With the commentary of Landino.  This is doubtless a precious copy, inasmuch as it contains TWENTY COPPER-PLATE IMPRESSIONS, and is withal in fair and sound condition.  The fore-edge margin has been however somewhat deprived of its original dimensions.

Decor Puellarum.  Printed by Jenson.  Quarto.  With the false date of 1461 for 1471.  This volume, which once gave rise to such elaborate bibliographical disquisition, now ceases to have any extraordinary claims upon the attention of the collector.  It is nevertheless a sine qua non in a library with any pretension to early typographical curiosities.  The present copy is clean and tolerably large:  bound by De Rome.