trinsecus addita est latina translatio. Symbolica Cebetis tabula, gr. lat. Angelica et humana salutatio ad deiparam virginem. Diligens Pisonis super græcis litteris commentatio multaque ad rem latinam facientia digna annotatu. Luciani samosatæ, judicium vocalium, ejusque translatio Cœlio Calcagnino interprete. Dominica Oratio. Apostolorum Symbolum. Initium Evangelii Joannis Apostoli. Psalmus Quinquagesimus cui principium, Miserere mei Domine. Philolai Crotoniatæ carmina aurea, quæ falso hactenus Pythagoræ adscripta sunt. Ad bene instituendum mores adolescentum Phocylidis Poema. Omnia cum Latina Interpretatione. Ferrariæ, per Joannem Maciochium Bondenum, 1510. 4to.

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This edition by J. Maria Tricælius is valuable. "Edizione stimatissima" Boni p. 198. De Bure No. 2219 "fort estimée des savans et recherchée par les curieux."

De octo partibus orationis Lib. I. et ejusdem alia opuscula. (gr. lat.) Cebetis tabula græca et latina. Carmina aurea Pythagoræ, etc. Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1512. 4to. R. M.

Grammaticæ Compendium, Græcæ Linguæ studiosis aptissimum. Adiectis ad calcem quibusdam Opusculis, Gr. et Lat. Hebraicæ præterea linguæ perutilis institutio. Basileæ, ex off. Jo. Oporini, 1547.

tyr, M. Bucer, and P. Fagius. Being made Super-Intendant of the foreign protestant churches in England, he printed this work" de Sacramentis" which even in Strype's time had become so rare that on that account, Strype in his Ecclesiastical Memorials printed the Translation of Lasco's long Dedication to K. Ed. 6th. The present copy has the autograph of the author who gave it to his brother Christopher. According to Herbert's Ames Myerdman only printed six books. Many interesting circumstances concerning John a Lasco will be found in Strype's Life of Cranmer and in his Ecclesiastical Memo

rials. See also Edward VI. p. 220.

LATHAM, SIMON. Faulconry or the Faulcons Lure and Cure in Two Books. London, 1658. Wood cuts. 12mo.

LATIMER, HUGHE, Bishop. A notable Sermon of the reverende father 'Maister Hughe Latimer, whiche he preached in the Shroude at Paules churche in London on the XVIII. daye of Januarye. The yere of our Lorde 1548. London, by Jhon Daye, n. d. 12mo. B. L.

the 14th of June, 1637. At the Censure of John Bastwick, Henry Burton and William Prinn, concerning pretended Innovations in the Church. By William, L. Archbishop of Canterbury. London, by Richard Badger, 1637. 4to.

It is said that only twenty-five copies were printed of this speech.

Canterburies Amazement: or the Ghost of the yong fellow Thomas Bensted, who was drawne, hangd and quartered by the meanes of the Bishop of Canterburie, who appeared to him at the Tower, since the Jesuites execution. London, for F. Coules, 1641. 4to.

LAUDONNIERE, RÉNÉ. L'Histoire notable de la Floride située es Indes Occidentales, contenant les trois voyages faits en icelle par certains Capitaines et Pilotes François, descrits par le Capitaine Laudonniere, qui a commandé l'espace d'un an trois moys; a laquelle a esté adiousté un quatriesme voyage fait par le Capitaine Gourgues, mis en lumiere par M. Bosanier. Paris, chez Guillaume Auuray, 1586. Svo. First Edition.

LAURENTIUS, AND. De Mirabili Strumas Sanandi Vi solis Galliæ Regibus divinitus concessa. Paris. 1609. With the plate. 12mo.

LAVATERUS, LUDOVICUS. De ritibus et institutis Ecclesiæ Tigurinæ opusculum denuo recognitum et auctum. Tiguri, typis Davidis Gessneri, 1702. Svo. B. M.

This book printed at Zurich (where were

printed many of the early works on the Reformation,) is both scarce and interesting, from the letters in the Appendix, viz., those of Lady Jane Gray, H. Duke of Suffolk, J. Aylmer, Ri. Bishop of Ely, T. Lever, Parkhurst, Jo. Jewell. The above letters addressed to H. Bullinger, are followed by Bullingeri Testimonium Anglis datum Tiguri, 1554."

LA VALLIERE. Catalogue des livres de la Bibliotheque de M. le Duc De La Valliere. Premiere Partie, Par Guillaume de Bure. Paris, 1783. 8vo. 6 vol. L. P.

"Il n'a été tire que 12 exemplaires de ce livre sur papier fin." MS. note in vol. 1. Seconde Partie, disposée par Jean-Luc Nyon. Paris, 1784. 8vo. 6 vol. L. P.

travels of certaine Englishmen into LAVENDER, THEOPHILUS. The cia, and to the Black Sea. And inAfrica, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thrato Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, MesopoSamaria, Judea, Palestina, Jerusatamia, Damascus, Canaan, Galile, lem, Jericho, and to the Red Sea : and to sundry other places. Begunne in the yeere of Jubile 1600, and by some of them finished this yeere, 1608. The others not yet returned. London, by Th. Haviland, for W. Aspley, 1609. 4to. Bl. L.

LAWRENCE, THOMAS. Francisci Nichollsii, M.D. Vita, cum conjecturis ejusdem de Natura et usu partium humani corporis similarium. Londini, 1780. 4to.

Privately printed, and only forty copies struck off.

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM. Marriage by the Morall Law of God Vindicated against all Ceremonial Laws of Popes and Bishops, destructive to Filiation, Aliment, and Succession, and the Government of Familyes, & Kingdomes. London, 1680. 4to.

"The author was one of the Commissioners for administration of Justice in Scotland, who wrote this work in favour of the Duke of Monmouth's claim to the Crown. It is curious, and of uncommon occurrence." MS. note.

LEAGUE AND COVENANT (The Solemn) for Reformation and defence of Religion, the Honour and happinesse of the King and the Peace and safety of three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1643. Are to be sold by T. Jenner at the Royal Exchange. Oblong

4to.

"This work of Hollars is found in one sheet in Vertue's Catalogue as extra rare,' but those printed like this copy in the shape of a book with nine separate plates are scarcely ever to be found. This is the only copy of that description that I have met with." Note by Mr. Grenville.

- A Phenix, or, the Solemn League and Covenant. Whereunto is annexed-I. The form and manner of his Majesties Coronation in Scotland, With a Sermon by R. Douglas. II. A declaration of the King's Majesty to all his loving subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland, &c. in the yeare 1650. III. The great danger of Covenant-breaking, &c. being the substance of a Sermon by Edm. Calamy. Edinburgh, printed

12mo.

LEAKE, STEPHEN MARTIN. The life of Sir John Leake. Knt. Admiral of the Fleet, &c. London, 1750. Portrait inserted. Rl. 8vo.

"This book is very scarce, as it was never published, Fifty copies of it only having been printed for private use." MS. note by Mr. Bindley. This copy is marked No. 4.

LE BEAU, C. Avantures, ou Voyage curieux et nouveau, parmi les Sauvages de l'Amerique Septentrionale, dans le quel on trouvera une description du Canada, avec une Relation tres particuliere des anciennes Coutumes, mœurs et façons de vivre des Barbares qui l'habitent et de la maniere dont ils se comportent aujourd'hui. Amsterdam, 1738. Plates. Svo. 2 vol.

"Nul autre ne nous a fait aussi bien connoitre les mœurs et les usages des trois nations du Canada; il releve les inexactitudes du Baron de La Hontan." Ri

charderie, VI. 24.

LE BLANC, VINCENT. Les voyages fameux qu'il a faits depuis l'aage de douze ans jusques a soixante, aux quatre parties du Monde. Redigez fidellement sur ses memoires, par Pierre Bergeron. Et nouuellement reueu, corrigé et augmenté par le Sr. Coulon. Paris, chez Gervais Clousier, 1658. 4to.

LE CERF, PETRUS THEODorus. De Angliæ Regni Genio, dotibus ac moribus. (Dissertatio Academica.) Wittenberga, 1682. 4to.

LEDERER, JOHN. The Discoveries of John Lederer, in three several Marches from Virginia, to the West of Carolina, and other parts of the Continent: begun in March 1669, and ended in September, 1670. Together with a Map of the whole territory which he traversed. Collected and translated out of Latine from his discourse and writings. By Sir William Talbot, Baronet.

London, by J. C. for Samuel Heyrick, 1672. 4to.

"The Map is very seldom to be found with the book; neither is the book of common occurrence."

LEDESMA, ALONSO DE. Romancero y Monstro Imaginado. En Barcelona, por Sebastian de Cormellas, 1616. 12mo. G. M.

The author was of such singular reputation that he was called by his countrymen "divino;" he published two volumes of "Conceptos" devenus (says Brunet) tres rares. The present volume is in some sort a third though a separate part, and appears to have been printed at Lerida, at Madrid, and Barcelona in the same year, 1616.

LEEDES. The examinations and confessions of the persons concerned in the noted Plot at Farnley Wood, in the Parish of Leedes, and County of York, with historical Remarks by Thomas Wilson. The original Examinations and Confessions were given to the late Mr. Ralph Thoresby of Leedes, by Thomas Thompson of York, Esq. the Judges AssoCommunicated to me by William Cookson of Leedes, Esq. (he having borrowed it of the Rev. Mr. Thoresby for the most noted and learned Antiquary Roger Gale, Esq.) in October, 1738. Fol.

ciate.

N.B. Tho' this MS. is worthy of preservation, yet it should not be published nor exposed to Publick View, because several worthy fami lies now living descended from the Persons herein mentioned, who abhor such fanatic Commonwealth Principles as their forefathers were foolishly drawn into by Persons not to be regarded.

Such is the Title Page of this curious manuscript which extends to 94 pages, after which follow forty pages in a more recent hand, relative to the Parish of Leedes, &c.

LEGENDA. Here beginneth the Kalendre of the newe Legende of Englande. Here beginneth the Life of Seynt Bergette. London, by Ry

charde Pynson, 1516. Hereafter foloweth a devoute Boke compylyd by mayster Walter Hylton to a devoute man in temporall estate, howe he shulde rule hym, &c. London, by Rycharde Pynson, 1506. 4to. Bl. L. G. M.

Collation. Title and Prologue four leaves. Tabula A A three leaves A-Y vi. in eights and fours alternately. V has five leaves, together one hundred and fortytwo leaves. Hylton's Treatise A and B in eights, sixteen leaves.

The last tract by Hylton, though with the date of 1506, belongs to the book, which is proved from the end of the prologue. "In the latter ende of this boke is a lytell draught of Mayster Walter Hylton of the medled lyfe, &c. and though it haue ben Imprynted before this tyme yet take it charytably, for the more a good thynge is knowen the better it is, &c." See Dibdin's Ames, II. p. 430 and 464.

The first Title Page has a wood cut of the Crucifixion. To the life of St. Bridget

there is a wood cut of the Saint.

LEGENDE (La) des Flamens, Artisiens, et Haynuyers. ou autrement leur cronicque abregee en laquelle sont contenues plusieurs hystoires de France, Angleterre et Allemaigne. A tres excellente Madame Loyse de Savoye mere de Francoys premier. Cy fine ce present traicte intitule la legende des Flamens nouvellement imprime a Paris et a este acheve le xxe jour de May mil cinq cens XXII. (1522.) Wood cuts. 4to. Bl. L.

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Beautifully printed UPON VELLUM. From the Mac-Carthy Collection. Only one other copy is known, which is in the Royal Library at Paris. See Van Praet, vol. V. p. 138.

LEGES ANGLIÆ. Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum Angliæ et de Conscientia. Londini, per Johannem Rastell, 1528. 16mo. Bl. L.

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LEGES ECCLESIASTICÆ. Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum Regis Henrici 8. inchoata: Deinde per Regem Odoardum 6. provecta, adauctaque in hunc modum, atque nunc ad

Le prodezze di Rodomontino figliuol di Rodomonte; libro d'arme, e d'amore, con le valorose battaglie fatte da Guidon Selvaggio, e d'altri

della Corte del Rè Carlo. Chiamato secondo Libro d'Astolfo innamorato. Venetia, s. a. 16mo.

LE HERMITE, JAQUES. A true relation of the Fleete which went vnder the Admirall Jaquis le Hermite through the Straights of Magellane towards the Coast of Peru, and the towne of Lima in the WestIndies. With a letter, containing the present state of Castile in Peru. Hereunto is annexed an excellent discourse, which sheweth by cleare and strong arguments how that it was both necessary and profitable for the United provinces to erect a West-India Company, and euery true subject of the same ought to advance it according to his power. Written by a well-wisher of the Common-wealth. London, printed for Mercurius Britannicus, 1625. 4to.

LEICESTER, ROBERT DUDLEY, Earl of. The copy of a letter written by a Mr. of Artes in Cambridge to his frende in Londonn concerninge some talke past of late between worthie and Graue men, about the

"This MS. is curious because it contains the original title with which Leycester's Commonwealth first appeared, when it was suppressed by Proclamation of Council in 1585, as may be seen in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, p. 158."

MS. note.

The Copie of a Leter, wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England. Anno 1584. 12mo.

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Leycesters Commonwealth, conceived, spoken and published dutifull goodwill and affection towith most earnest protestation of all wards this realm, for whose good onely, it is made common to many.

Printed 1641. Portrait. 4to. R.

This copy has a fine impression of the head which rarely occurs. Wood endeavours to prove that Parsons did not write this. Of Leicester's Hist. see Lodge's Illustrations, I. 308. Collins has printed in Sydney's Letters, I. 62, an answer to this book by Sir P. Sydney, which chiefly howhis ancestors. ever consists of proofs of the nobility of

Discours de la Vie abominable, ruses, trahisons, meurtres, impostures, empoisonnements, paillardises, Atheismes, et autres tres-iniques conuersations, desquelles a usé et use journellement le my Lorde de Lecestre Machiaueliste, contre l'honneur de Dieu, la Majesté de la Royne