Fazio.  Dita Mundi.  Printed by L. Basiliensis. 1474.  Folio.  Prima Edizione.  Of unquestionably great rarity; and unknown to the earlier bibliographers.  It is printed in double columns, with signatures, to o in eighths:  o has only four leaves.  This copy has the signatures considerably below the text, and they seem to have been a clumsy and posterior piece of workmanship.  It has been recently bound in russia.

Frezzi.  Il Quadriregio. 1481.  Folio.  Prima Edizione.  I have before sufficiently expatiated upon the rarity of this impression.  The present is a large copy, but too much beaten in the binding.  The first leaf is much stained.  A few of the others are also not free from the same defect.

Fulgosii Bapt.  Anteros.:  sive de Amore.  Printed by L. Pachel.  Milan. 1496.  On the reverse of the title, is a very singular wood-cut—­where Death is sitting upon a coffin, and a blinded Cupid stands leaning against a tree before him:  with a variety of other allegorical figures.  The present is a beautiful copy, in red morocco binding.

Gloria Mulierum.  Printed by Jenson.  Quarto.  This is another of the early Jenson pieces which are coveted by the curious and of which a sufficiently particular account has been already given to the public[128] This copy is taller than that of the Decor Puellarum (before described) but it is in too tender a condition.

Legende Di Sancti per Nicolao di Manerbi, Printed by Jenson.  Without date.  Folio.  It is just possible that you may not have forgotten a brief mention of a copy of this very rare book in the Mazarine Library at Paris,[129] That copy, although beautiful, was upon paper:  the present is UPON VELLUM—­illuminated, very delicately in the margins, with figures of divers Saints.  I take the work to be an Italian version of the well known LEGENDA SANCTORUM.  The book is doubtless among the most beautiful from the press of JENSON, who is noticed in the prefatory advertisement of Manerbi.

Luctus Christianorum.  Printed by Jenson.  Quarto.  Another of the early pieces of Jenson’s press; and probably of the date of 1471.  The present is a fair, nice copy; but has something of a foggy and suspicious aspect about it.  I suspect it to have been washed.

Monte Sancto di Dio. 1477.  Folio.  The chief value of this book consists in its having good impressions of the THREE COPPER PLATES.  Of these, only one is in the present copy, which represents the Devil eating his victims in the lake of Avernus, as given in the La Valliere copy.  Yet the absence of the two remaining plates, as it happens, constitutes the chief attraction of this copy; for they are here supplied by two FAC-SIMILES, presented to the Library by Leopold Duke of Tuscany, of the most wonderfully perfect execution I ever saw.

Petrarcha.  Sonetti e Trionfi.  Printed by V. de Spira. 1470.  Folio.  Prima Edizione.  The last leaf of the table is unluckily manuscript; and the last leaf but one of the text is smaller than the rest—­which appear to have been obtained, from another copy.  In other respects, this is a large, sound, and desirable copy.  It belonged to Prince Eugene.