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Credit: Sales catalogue 113: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![HERALDRY. (See nos. 294, 298, 334). \ HORACE. ! (See also nos. 826, 923). 284 Horatius Flaccus. Opera cum commen- tarus Jac. Cruquii Messenii, Iani Dusae Nordovicis, etc. Amsterdam, Plantin, 1611 308 4to. Old vellum, gilt centre device. 285 Horace. Opera. London, T. Payne and J. Edwards, 1792 15s Large 4to. 2 vols. Old blue morocco, worn. With engraved portrait of Count Mansfield. 286 Horace. — Zesen (Filip von) Moralia Horatiana, das ist Die Horatzische Sitten- lehre aus der ernst-sittigen Gesellschaft der alten Weise-meister gezogen. Amsterdam, Kornelis de Bruyn, 1656 £3 10s 4to. Calf, rebacked. 2 parts bound together. 6 ll., 119 pp., 3 1l., 85 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 203 engravings of emblems. With the arms of Sir Charles Stirling-Maxwell on sides of binding. HUMANISTS. 287 Bates (W.) Vitae Selectorum aliquot viorum. London, G. Wells, 1681 £1 10s 4to. Oldcalf. A collection of biographies by various authors, including lives of Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, Grotius, Scaliger, Savonarola, Benito Henry Chichel, William Camden, Bishop Ussher, etc. 288 [Linacre (T.)]. Johnson (J. N.) The Life of Thomas Linacre, Doctor in Medicine . . . edited by Robert Graves of the Inner Temple. London, E. Lumley, 1835+ £3 3s 8vo. Original cloth. The only complete memoir of Linacre giving full accounts of the original source material. According to a note in a copy now in America, written by the publisher Lumley, the edi- tion did not sell & he destroyed all except a few copies which he gave away as presents. 289 Smith (Thomas) Vitae quorundam erudi- tissimorum . virorum. London, D. Mortier, 1707 £1 5s Small 4to. Old calf. Front., portrait of Bishop Ussher. Contains a biography of John Dee, John Bainbridge & Henry Brigges. HUNTING. “i 290 Francucci Arretino (Scipione) La Caccia Etrusca. Poema. Florence, Giunta, 1624 30s 8vo. Old vellum. 4 ll., 399 pp. Each page sur- rounded by a woodcut border, woodcut decorations at beginning of each canto. INQUISITION. 291 Sarpi (Paolo) The History of the Inquisi- tion, composed by the Reverend Father Paolo Servita ... translated out of the Italian Copy by Robert Gentilis. London, Small 4to. Wrappers. Ist & only English edition. SEE:G..21765; INSURANCE. 292 Price (Richard) Observations on Rever- sionary Payments on schemes for providing annuities for widows and for persons in Old Age; on the methods of calculating the values of assurances on lives and on the National Debt. London, 1771 30s 8vo. Old calf, repaired. 15 + 344 pp. An important book in the history of insurance, which 19 had a considerable influence on the insurance Societies at the time. There is also a long chapter on the question of the National Debt, the extinction of which the author was advocating. Title and some leaves a little discoloured. ITALY. (See also nos. 157, 290, 252, 253, 625-6). 293 (SICILY). Adorno (D.) Descrizione Geo- erafica dell’ Isola di Sicilia e dell’ altre sue adiaconti terza edizione. Palermo, D. Adorno, 1798 15s 8vo. Original wrappers. Uncut copy. 294 Alazzi (G.) Ricordi Storici di Filippo di Cino Rinuccini dal 1282 al 1460 colla con- tinuazione di Alamanno e Neri suoi figli . . . estratti dai Codici Originali. Florence, Piatti, 1840 12s 6d 4to. Original boards. 204 pp. Folding genealogi- cal table of the Rinuccini family, and outline plates of the Rinuccini chapel in Santa Croce. 295 Albiani (Angelo) Innamoramento di due fidelissimi Amanti Paris e Vienna. Lucea, S.Ln.d. [circa 1800] 10s 6d 12mo. Original pictorial boards. Small cuts in text. A rare chap-book edition of a well-known popular romance poem. . 296 Aldo ed Agnese Novella prima. dam.o ods. 90 £1 10s Small 4to. Hf. cf. A very erotic novel in verse of which we are completely unable to trace the author. Not in Gay or the Registrum Librorum Eroticorum. Amster- 297 D’Ambra (Francesco) La Cofanaria Comedia . . . Con gl’ Intermedii di Giovam- batista Cini. Florence, F. Giunti, 1593 £2 2s 8vo. Hf. cf. A rare play acted for the marriage of Francesco de’? Medici & Giovanni d’Austria. In- teresting description of the scenery & pageantry for the Intermedii. Pol eae ie 298 Ammirato (Scipione) Delle Famiglie Nobili Fiorentine. Parte Prima. Florence, G. D. and B. Giunti, 1615 £4 4s Folio. Old calf, rebacked. 4+ 211+ 3pp. With a magnificent series of full-page and double-page engravings of genealogical trees of Florentine families, set in remarkable landscape backgrounds. This nobly printed and little known book is in the best traditions of Italian book “production. A second volume was published in 1651 after the author’s death. 299 Anthology. Libro terzo delle rime di diversi nobilissimi . . . autori. Venice, B. Cesano, 1550 £1 10s 8vo. Original limp vellum. Fine device of a sage at the well. Vol. 3 of this famous anthology pub- lished over a period of years. ‘ he : 2994 —-— Libro quinto delle Rime di diversi illustri Signori Napoletani. Venice, G. Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1555 7 1-2ike 8vo. Vellum. Printer’s device. Small defect to title & marginal repair. 300 Aretine (Pietro) Lettere. Paris, Matteo il £8 8s Maestro, 1609 8vo. 6 vols. Modern half calf. Gilt medallion portrait of Aretino on title. The only collected edi- tion of Aretino’s correspondence with the famous statesmen, writers, artists and scholars of his time. Of the greatest importance for the history of the Renaissance. Very rare. 301 Aretino (Pietro) Capricciosi e Piacevoli Ragionamenti. Stampati in Cosmopoli [Leyden, Elzevier], 1660 £3 10s 8vo. Old vellum. The genuine Elzevier edition of the most famous of all “ erotic ” books. Fine copy. 302 [Aretino (P.)] La vita di Pietro Aretino seritta dal Conte Gianmaria Mazzuetelli. Padua, G. Comino, 1741 15s 8vo. Old vellum. With 6 pages of medallion por- trait. 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