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CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS.
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Johannes Tornasius, or de Tournes: son of an older printer of the same name; began to print in 1564; obliged, on account of his Protestant opinions, to leave France 1665; settled at Geneva, and there died, 1615.

119. Iamblichus. 18mo. Lyons, 1577—Mr. Yates.

Bartholomew Frein.

120. Petri Victorii, Varia Lectiones. Folio. Lyons, 1554—Mr. Yates.

Lyons Press, No printer's name.

121. Henrici Bouhic, utriusque Juris professoris, opus preclarissimum. Folio. Sine anno—Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

122. Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Sanctorum. Illuminated capitals, table rubricated. Folio. No place, date, or printer's name. It may be either French or Italian; the date is perhaps as early as 1490—The Very Rev. Dr. Rock.

ITALY.

Conrad Sweynheim: ceased to print, 1473. Arnold Pannartz: d. 1476. They commenced printing at Subiaco, in Southern Italy, before 1465; and afterwards, being invited to Rome by the Pope's librarian, John Andreas, Bishop of Aleria, they continued to print there from 1466 until 1473, when Sweynheim abandoned printing for engraving. He must have died about the same time as his partner. It is on record that in the first seven years they printed twenty-eight books; some of them in more than one volume. They are generally supposed to have been printers under Fust and Schoyffer, and to have come into Italy after the sack of Mentz in 1462.

123. Suetonii Historia. Beautifully illuminated; the first page with an elaborate border; on paper. Folio. Rome, 1472—Mr. Standidge.

Christopher Valdarfer: commenced printing at Venice, but removed to Milan before 1471, at which date he printed the Editio princeps of Boccaccio's Decameron; for the only known perfect copy of which £2,260 was given at the sale of the Roxburgh Library in 1812. Some years later the same volume was sold for £900, and bought by the Earl Spencer; it is now in the Spencer Library.

124. S. Ambrosius de Officiis. 4to. Milan, 1474—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

Aldus Manutius: b. 1446–7, d. 1515; began to print, 1494. His descendants continued to print until the death of his grandson, Aldus Manutius, junior, in 1597. His first work, according to the best authorities, was the "Erotema" of Constantine Lascaris, but this honour is also claimed for:—

125. Museus de Herone et Leandro; in Greek and Latin; woodcuts. 4to. Venice, no date (1494)—Messrs. Ellis and Green.

126. Urbani Bolzanii, Grammatica Græca; the seventh book printed by Aldus with a date (M.IIID). 4to. Venice, 1497—Mr. Standidge.

127. Another copy; 1497—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

128. Psalterium Greece; rubricated. 4to. Venice, 1498—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

129. Poliphili Hypnerotomachia ubi humana omnia non nisi omnium