2786 Plauti Comoediae, accuratissime editæ, front. 16mo. old red morocco, gilt edges, 6s. 6d. Amst. Elzevir, 1652

Sold in Didot's sale for 90 francs.

2787 Plauti Comœdiæ, 12mo. in rich old french morocco, gilt edges, 10s. 6d. Amst. 1721 2788 Plauti Comœdiæ Quatuor cum familiaribus annotationibus, Argent. 1511.-Nebrissensis in Persium Interpretatio, 1512, in 1 vol. 4to. scarce, 10s. 6d.

Purchased in Mr. Newton's sale for 31. 3s. 2789 Plauti Menechmi, Comoedia, sine ullá notá.—Ciceronis Officiorum, lib. III. ib.-Aristotelis Stagirita Philosophorum maximi Economicorum, lib. II. ab Aretino, Lips. 1507.— Boecii Opus V. Librorum de Philosophica Consolatione, ib. 1505.-Magnus Basilius de Poetarum, Oratorum, Historicorumque ac Philosophorum legendis libris: cum Commentariolo Johannis Honorii Cubitensis, ib. 1508, in 1 vol. folio, rare editions, in the original wooden binding, Il. 1s. 2790 Plauti Captivi, Comœdia, cum collatione quinque codd. MSS. et observationibus aucta a Jo. Bosscha, fine paper, 8vo. h. b. neat, 5s. 6d. Traj. ad Rhen. 1817 2791 Play Bills for Covent Garden Theatre, from 1776 to 1826 inclusive, 51 vols. folio, h. b. neat, 211. 1776-1826 This set cost the late Charles Matthews, Esq. upwards of one hundred pounds. 2792 Plays.-Klucht van de Bedroge Dromer gerümt door Jan Wissingh, 4to. h. b. vellum, 4s. Amst. 1656 2793 Plays. Palmire en Claudianes ware liefde of, val van Galerio, gerümt door Jacobus Crabbe, wood-cut in the title, 4to. uncut, 3s. t'Alckmaer, 1661 2794 Plays. De Bedriegery van delicht-verkeerde Boef, 4to. scarce, 3s. Amst. 1662 2795 Playfair's (Dr. J.) System of Chronology, folio, fine copy, russia, 1l. 11s. 6d. Edinb. 1784

From his late majesty's library. 2796 Plazonis Aculani (Stephani) Præexercitamentorum Libellus, et Rhetorices Compendium, 4to. very fine copy, neat, scarce, Venet. per Gregorium de Gregorüs.

18s. No notice of this work, or even of the author of it, appears in the Memoirs of the Literary Characters of Arola, by the Conte Pietro Trieste de Pellegrini.

2797 Plinii Secundi Historia Naturalis cum Indice, 4 vols. 8vo. fine sound copy, morocco, gilt edges, RARE, 5l. 5s.

Venetiis, Aldus, 1535-1588-1540 This set was purchased in the Duke of Grafton's sale for 101.

2798 Plinio Secondo Historia Naturale, per Landino, large folio, fine copy, first page richly illuminated in gold and colours, h. b. neat, 21. 2s. Jenson, 1476

'Cette édition magnifique est la première de la traduction Italienne de Pline, par Landino.'-Brunet. It is likewise a magnificent specimen of early printing. Sold in the Pinelli sale for 101. 10s., in the Roxburghe for 61. 12s. 6d., and in the Crevenna for 136 francs.

2799 Plinio Secondo Historia Naturale, per Landino, corretta per Brucioli, 4to. fine copy, in vellum, edges gilt and tooled, 10s. 6d. Venetia, 1543

Sold in Croft's sale for 11. 5s.

2800 Plinii Secundi Epistolarum, lib. VIII. folio, fine large clean copy, morocco elegant, gilt edges, extremely rare, 51. 5s. Mediolani per Philippum Lavagniam, 1478

An edition of great rarity, unknown to Brunet and other bibliographers. This copy was purchased in Mr. Nicol's sale, before it was bound, for 61.

2801 Plinii Secundi Epistolarum, lib. X. ejusd. Panegyricus Traiano Imp. dictus, &c. omnia hæc per FIDELISSIMUM ALDINUM EXEMPLAR impressa greca preterea omnia collecta et ad verbum traducta sunt, 8vo. extremely rare, ll. 11s. 6d.

Paris. in ædib. Egidii Gourmont et Hemonis le Febure, 1511

"A reprint of the Aldine edition of 1508. It has also, in addition to the preliminary matter, an interpretation of Greek words, the same as Aldus afterwards printed in his edition of 1518." It is of excessive rarity, and is apparently not mentioned by Renouard.

2802 Plinio Libro de gli Huomini Illustri, ridotto in lingua Volgare. -Le Vite de Alessandro, e i Costumi di Cesare ne fatti di Guerra, &c. raccolti da Varii Scrittori, Lat. et Gr. con Espositione de l'Atanagio, Svo. neat, scarce, 12s.

Venet. Guerra, 1562 2803 Ploti (Gio. Andrea) Giuditta Rappresendata, 8vo. vellum, scarce, 5s. Piacenza, 1589

2804 Plutarchi Opera Moralia et Vitæ Parallelæ, Græce, 3 vols. folio, morocco elegant, with joints, lined with leather, and silk insides, gilt edges, 71. 7s. Venet. Aldus, 1509-19

* Première edition [of the Opera Moralia] rare et recherchée.' — Brunet. The Opera Moralia alone sold in Sir M. Sykes's sale for 8l. 18s. 6d.

2805 Plutarchi Opera Omnia, Græce et Latine, ex Interpretationibus Henrici Stephani et aliorum, 13 vols. Paris. ap. H. Stephanum, 1572.-Plutarque Œuvres Completes, translatés de Grec en François, par Jacq. Amyot. 13 vols. Paris, Vascosan, 1567-74, in all 26 vols. 8vo. fine set, very neat and uniform, in french calf, marbled and gilt edges, bound by Padeloup, 91.9s.

Brunet remarks of the first set in this collection, that it is an "Edition non moins remarquable par sa belle execution que par son exactitude; les exemplaires, ainsi complets, qui se trouvent bien conservés, sont très-recherchés."

The second set he calls "Très-belle édition, dont les exemplaires bien conservés sont toujours recherchés des curieux." The first work alone sold in Dr. Heath's sale for 12. 15s., and the second in M. d'O—'s sale for 384 francs. 2806 Plutarchus de Virtute et Vitio, ejusdem de Fortuna, &c. Græce, 4to. fine copy, very neat, gilt edges, 21. 2s. Paris. per Egidium Gourmont, 1509

EXCESSIVELY RARE, and believed to be the second Greek book printed at Paris. The work is preceded by a Latin Introduction of four pages by Hier. Alexander Mottensis, on the Parisian School, in which he enthusiastically praises the 'immortal Roman, Aldus.'

2807 Plutarchi Libellus perque elegans, De non irascendo, Ejusdem de Curiositate, etc. etc. Gr. et Lat. 8vo. fine copy, vellum, RARE, 7s. Venetiis, per Nicol. Zopinum, 1526 2808 Plutarchus.-Sit ne Rationis aliqua in Bestiis Vis, tum utra animantium plus hujus habeant, terrestriane, en aquatica, Plutarchi libellus, Gr. et Lat. a Grynæo, dedicated to Archbishop Cranmer, Svo. vellum, scarce, 7s. Basil. 1534 2809 Plutarchi de Procreatione Animi in Timæo Platonis, Græce, Parisiis, 1552.- Euclidis Rudimenta Musicis, Gr. et Lat. ib. 1557.-Platonis Dialogi, Græce, ib. 1560.-Plutarchus Charoneus de Liberorum Institutione, Gr. et Lat. ib. 1577. -Homeri Ranarum et Murium Pugna, Gr. ib. 1580.Basilii Rom. Imp. Exhortationum capita LXVI. Gr. ib. 1584. -Orphei seu Mercurii Ter Maximi Prognostica à Terræ motibus, Gr. et Lat. ib. 1586.-Magorum qui a Zoroastro prodiere oracula, Gr. ib. 1595.-Heinsii Peplus Græcorum Epigrammatum, Lugd. Bat. 1593, in 1 vol. 4to. vellum, scarce, 11. 1s.

Cost the late possessor 21. 2s.

2810 Plutarchus de Liberis educandis, Gr. et Lat. Antverpiæ, 1563.- De formulis Colloquiorum quotidianorum libellus, &c. Paris, 1554.-Jo. Varennii Mechliniensis de Accentibus Græcorum libellus, Lovanii, 1551.-Alphabetum Græcum, in quo de Græcarum litterarum formis, nominibus, potestate, &c. auc. F. Sylburgio, Francof. 1591.-Loescheri Ion sive originum Græciæ Restauratarum, &c. lib. II. Lipsiæ, 1705, in 1 vol. 8vo. fine copies, vellum, 8s.

2811 Plutarchi Opusculum de Liberorum Institutione, item Isocratis Orationes, ad Demonicum, ad Nicoclem et Nicoclis, Græce, Witeb. s. a.-Euripidis Epistolæ, Græce, Rostochii, 1569.— Timæus de Anima et de Vitâ Pythagoreâ, ib. 1569, in 1 vol. 8vo. scarce, 5s. 6d.

2812 Plutarchi Opusculum de Liberorum Institutione, item Isocratis Orationes III. ad Demonicum, Nicoclem et Nicoclis, adj. Luciani Cupido, Græce, 12mo. morocco elegant, gilt edges, VERY RARE, 17. 11s. 6d. Lond. Bynneman, 1581 2813 Plutarchi liber Quomodo Juveni audienda sint Poemata, Gr. et Lat. ex interpretatione Grotii et cum notis J. Potter, 12mo. very neat, in old calf gilt, 4s. 6d. Glasg. Foulis, 1753 2814 Plutarchi Apophthegmata, Fr. Philelpho e Græco in Lat translata, 4to. FINE COPY OF AN EXTREMELY RARE EDITION, 21. 12s. 6d. sine ullá notá

Probably the first edition. It is printed in the same type as the first edition of Horace. The present copy cost the late possessor 97. in the Mayaus sale, in 1829.

2815 Plutarcho Piacevoli et Ingeniose Questioni, tradotte par Pietro Lauro, 8vo. vellum, 3s. 6d.

Vinegia, per Comin da Trino, 1551

2816 Plutarchi Opuscula de Garrulitate, de Avaritia quomodo poterit quis ab inimicis aliquid commodi reportare, ejusdem de modo audiendi ex Luciano, Demonactis Philosophi Vita, omnia per eximium Richardum Paceum Angliæ Oratorem elegantissime versa, 4to. fine copy, very neat, RARE, 11.11s. 6d. Venet. 1522

For an account of Pace, dean of St. Paul's, see Wood's Athenæ. 2817 Poemata Varia in Foedus et Victoriam contra Turcas juxta Sinum Corinthiacum, Petri Gherardi studio conquisita, pp. 440, 8vo. vellum, 15s. Venet. Guerra, 1572

Beautifully printed with Aldine type.

2818 Poesies Latines et Françaises de Léonce St. Géniez, agé de 14 ans, 8vo. h. b. morocco, 2s. 6d.

2819 Poetæ Christiani Veteres, sc. Prudentii Opera, Prosperi Aquitanici Epigrammata, Jo. Damascenus, Gr. et Lat.Sedulius, Juvencus, Arator, Proba Falconia, Homerocentra, Gr. et Lat. etc.-Gregorii Nazianzeni Carmina, Gr. et Lat. -Nonnus, Græce, 3 vols. 4to, QUITE COMPLETE, a fine large and sound set, elegantly bound in morocco, gilt edges, 181.18s. Venet. Aldus, 1501, 2, 4.

Collection infiniment rare et precieuse, dont une description détaillée est d'autant plus necessaire, que le peu d'exemplaires qui restent, sont presque tous plus ou moins incompletes."-Renouard. The above copy is perfect in every respect. "These volumes are among the very rarest of the Aldine publications to be found in a perfect state, It is the first work in which the Aldine anchor was used, and contains the first portion of the New Testament ever printed in any language." Sir Mark Sykes's copy sold for 26l. 15s. 6d.

2820 Poetæ tres egregii nunc primum in lucem editi, Gratii de Venatione lib. I. Ovidii Halieuticon. Olympii Cynegeticon. Ejusd. Carmen Bucolicum. Calphurnii Bucolica, Adriani Card. venatio, Venet. Aldus, 1534.-Diversorum Veterum Poetarum in Priapum lusus, ib. 1534.-Aristotelis Poetica, Gr. et Lat. conversa per Alex. Paccium, ib. id. 1536, in 1 vol. Svo. fine clean copies, neat, 21. 2s.

These are all very scarce works, according to Brunet and Renouard. For an account of the last, see the Censura Literaria, where it is stated to be "the most ancient Latin translation of the Poetica of Aristotle extant, with the Greek text subjoined, but which is so little known to editors or readers of that work, that uo mention of it has occurred to me any where but in Harles' edition." The two last sold separately in Sir M. M. Sykes's sale for 57. 10s.

2821 Poetæ Latini Rei Veneticæ Scriptores et Bucolici Antiqui, viz Gratii Falisci, atque Aurelii Olympii Cynegeticon. Halieuticon et de Aucupio, notis variorum, curâ Kempheri, 4to. very fine copy, in Dutch prize vellum, 18s.

Lugd. Bat. 1728 "Collection estimée, qui a eu pour éditeurs Bruce et Havercamp."-Brunet. Sold in De Cotte's sale for 48 francs, and in Caillard's for 51 francs. 2822 Pointer's Account of the Roman Pavement, found at Stunsfield, proved to be 1400 years old, plate, 8vo. 3s. 6d. 1713

2823 Polus (Ant.) de Origine veræ atque falsæ Religionis, Patavi, 1569.-Poli Lucidarium Potestatis Papalis, Venet. 1576, in 1 vol. 4to. fine copies, morocco elegant, gilt edges,

17. 11s. 6d.

The second tract is extremely rare, and was most rigidly suppressed. 2824 POLI (REGINALDI) CARDINALIS BRITANNI AD HENRICUM OCTAVUM BRITANNIE REGEM PRO ECCLESIASTICE UNITATIS DEFENSIONE LIBRI QUATUOR, folio, fine copy, morocco elegant, gilt edges, EXTREMELY RARE, 71. 7s.

Romæ, apud Antonium Bladum Asulanum, s. a. FIRST EDITION. A copy sold in Lord Guildford's sale for 241. It is a most important book, from its connection with the ecclesiastical history of the country. Henry VIII. was alarmed at the receipt of a copy, though Pole promised not to publish it [see the Biographia Britannica], and ordered Archbishop Cranmer and the bishops to draw up an answer to it. Latimer likewise preached against it, [see Strype.] Henry first endeavoured to inveigle Pole into England, to explain to him the doctrine of the Pope's supremacy, and failing in this, offered 50,000 crowns for his head, and caused his brothers to be arrested and executed. The Pope considered Pole in imminent danger from Henry's emissaries, and ordered a guard for the protection of his person. Such is the very great rarity of the book, that Harley, Earl of Oxford, could never obtain a copy. His late Majesty's library, rich in every department connected with the civil and ecclesiastical history of the country, does not possess a copy. This edition is not mentioned by Dr. Dibdin, in his Library Companion, nor by De Bure, Brunet, or Dr. Adam Clarke.

Prima Romæ per Anton. Bladum Asulanum in fol. anno non indicato prodiit ab ipso tamen autore postea fuit suppressa. Unde factum est, ut hæc editio libris omnium rarissimis annumeranda sit, et vel in ipsis instructissimis Principum Bibliothecis desideretur.'

2825 Poli De Concilio Liber, Romæ, apud P. Manutium, Aldi Filium, 1562.-Reformatio Angliæ ex Decretis Reginaldi Poli Cardinalis, sedis Apostolicæ Legati, Anno 1556, ib. id. 1562, in 1 vol. 4to. neat, ll. 1s.

Sold in Sir Mark Sykes's sale for 41. 1s., and in Mr. Hibbert's for 37. 12s.

2826 Poli lib. II. primus de Concilio, Alter de Reformatione Angliæ, sequitur disputatio de baptismo Constantini sanctâ et huic ætati valdè commodo decreta describit, Svo. vellum, RARE, 16. 1s. Dilinga, 1562 2827 Poli de Concilio Liber, ejusd. de Baptismo Constantini Magni Imperatoris; et Reformatio Angliæ, ex Decretis. ejusdem, 8vo. neat, ll. 5s.

Venet. [Typis Aldi] ex off. Jord. Ziletti, 1562 A beautiful re-impression of these celebrated tracts. Sold in Mr. Brockett's sale for 11. 11s. 6d.

2828 Poli Vita, 4to. h. b. morocco, very scarce, ll. 11s. 6d.

Venet. [Typis Aldi] ex off. Guerrei fratrum, 1565

Sold in the Celotti sale for 21. 2s.

2829 Pole's (Sir W.) Collections towards a Description of the County of Devon, 4to. fine copy, very neat, scarce,

21. 2s.

1791

Sold in the Merly sale for 31. 5s.