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![486 IsipoRuS HISPALENSIS. DE SumMMo BONO—ALCUINUS DE SAPIENTIA, ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (82 UW. 10% by 74 tn.) well written in gothic letter, long lines, 31 to a full page, in the same hand throughout by an English ° scribe), red rubrics and initials, contem- porary oak boards, covered with deerskin, enclosed in a new brown morocco slip case sm. folio. initio SHC. XII yx” The binding is said to have been executed at Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire. There is an inscription on the first page, “Liber est Keclesie S. Johannis apli et Evang. de Hagemont.” It also bears a XVIth century autograph of “ THomas Scotts.” Two ll. of an -ancient Latin MS. written in Ireland by an Irish hand of the XIIth century are used as end leaves for the binding. 487 Isidorus Hisp. Epistolarum amplius mille ducentarum libri tres nunc primum Graecé editi. Quibus é regione accessit latina Jacobi Bilii interpretatio, etc. Gr. et Lat. LARGE PAPER, title in red and black, old French olive morocco, line tooled back and sides, g.e. J. A. DE THOU’S copy, with his monogram on back and first arms on sides “Jac. AUGUST. THUANUS,” FINE copy (from the Syston Park library) folio. Paris. C. Chaudiere, 1585 488 Itinerarium Germaniae Provincias continens lis qui aliquo vel lega- tionis vel mercaturae vel alia ea causa suscipiunt longé neces- sarium, engraved title and 98 maps, not only of Germany but of all other Huropean countries, the last being a folding plan of the Duchy of Brabant “per D. Gerardum Stempelim Goudanum, 1587,” cleverly coloured by a contemporary hand, old French red morocco, Sull gilt floreate back, line sides with corner fleurons, a centre mosaic in blue morocco with floreate ornaments, bronze flowered paper doublures, g. e. (Padeloup) (Duke of Sussex’s ex-libris), enclosed in new red morocco slip case, FINE COPY, RARE sm. 4to. sine nota [15—] 489 James. <A True Relation of the most Inhumane and bloody Murther of Master James Minister and Preacher of the Word of God at Rock- land in Norfolke; committed by one Love his Curate and consented unto by his Wife; who both were executed for this fact this last Assises, etc. black letter (10 Zl.) crushed blue morocco extra, inside dentelles, g. e. by F. Bedford, FINE COPY, VERY RARE sm. 4to. printed for R. Bonian and H. Walley, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Spread-Eagle, right over against the great North-doore of 8. Pauls, 1609 *,* The earliest known book with the full address of R. Bonian, the printer. 490 James I of England and VI of Scotland (King). The Kings Maiesties Speech, as delivered by him in the upper house of Parliament to the Lords & Commons, on Monday 19. March 1603, being the first day of his present Parliament, and the first Parliament of his Maiesties Raigne (14 Ul.) half calf, RARE sm. 4to. imprinted .. by R. Barker, the Kings Printer, 1604 *,* The first speech made to Parliament by King James I after his accession to the throne of England.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31655671_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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