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Peter de Cuemoxa. 144. Dante, Divina Conimedia. Folio. Veuice, 1491 — Society of Antiquaries. Maxkred de Strevo. 145. Boccaccio Ceuealogiic Deorum. Woodcuts. Folio. Venice, 1407 — Society of Antiquaries. AXDREA BONETTIS DI PaPIA. 14G. Ubertinus de Casalis, Arbor vitte crucifixse Jesu. First initial illuminated. Folio. Veuice, 1485 — Mr. Yates. Thomas de Blavis. 147. Ciceronis Opera. Folio. Venice, 1488 — Mr. Yates. HiEROXYMUS DE PeRGAMINIS. 148. Biblia Latina. 8vo. Venice, 1497 — Mr. Yates. Barzalerius. 149. Herodiaui Historia. 4to. Bologna, 1493 — Mr. Yates. Steffan Planck. 150. Pontificalis ordinis Liber ; rubricated, with music. Folio. Rome, 1485 — Society of Antiquaries. 151. Mirabilia Urbis Roma). Woodcuts. 16mo. Rome, 1500 — Mr. Addington. The stoiy of Pope Joan occurs in this curious book, and some strange legends of Virgil, and the magical arts he was said to practise. Bartholomeus de Zanis ; printed for the Giunti. 152. Valerius Maximus. Folio. Venice, 1508 — Mr. Yates. 153. Catalogus Sanctorum Petri de NataUbus ; a very fine copy Folio. Venice, 1506— Mr. Waller. Cesare Arrivabexe. 154. Johannis de Ketham Fasciculus Medicince ; curious woodcuts in the style of the " Poliphilo," and said to be by Bellini ; the second or third edition of this curious anatomical treatise. Folio. Venice 1522 — Mr. Fisher. PORTUGAL — LISBON. 155. Commentary on the Pentateuch : in Hebrew characters : the fn-st book printed at Lisbon: no printer's name. Folio. Lisbon 1489 — Ellis and Green. ENGLAND. William Caxk^x : born "in Kente in the Weeld," ctt: 1422 d. 1491 • buried in the churchyard of St. Margaret's, Westminster. He com- menced to print in England in the year 1477, his first book beino- the "Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophei-s." He had previously, it is supposed, printed at Bruges, " Le Jtecueil des Histoires de Troye ;" the same in English — being the first English book ever printed ; — and the •' Chess Book." See Blades, vol. i. p. GO. 15G. Le Recueil des Histoires de Troyes : " compos6 en I'an de gi-ace