.
Willelmum de Machlinia_ ad instanciam nec non expensas
Henrici Urankenburg, mercatoris, _sine anno vel loco,
circa_, 1480, 4to. 11 0 0

599. [Transcriber's Note: sic] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers,
bounde up in one small poesie, gathered in the fyne outlandish
gardins of Euripides, Ovid, Petrake, Aristo, and others.
_London_, 4to. 1 12 0

1669. The Recuile of the Historie of Troie; _imprynted_
1553, _by William Copland, folio_ 2 5 0

1670. The Pastyme of People. The Chronicles of dyvers
Realmys, and most specyally of the Realme of Englond,
brevely compylyd and _emprynted in Chepesyde at the sygne of
the Mearmayde, next Polly's Gate (made up with MS.) morocco,
gilt leaves_, folio 9 14 0

1684. Cunningham's Cosmographical Glasse. _Lond. printed by
Daye_, 1559, fol. 5 15 6

(I conclude that it had the portrait.)

2932. Ptolomaei Cosmographie; cum tab. georgr. [Transcriber's
Note: geogr.] illum. _Impress. in Membranis_, 1482, fol. 14
14 0

2933. Virgilii Opera: _Impres. in Membram. Venet. ap.
Barthol. Cremonens_, 1472, fol. (Two leaves on vellum in MS.
very fairly written) 43 1 0

Purchased by the late Mr. Quin.

2934. Plinii Hist. Naturalis; Venet. 1472, folio. _Impres.
in Membranis._ The first leaf illuminated on very fine
vellum paper. Note in this book: "This book, formerly Lord
Oxford's, was bought by him of Andrew Hay for 160 guineas."
65 2 0

Purchased by Mr. Edwards.

There was also a magnificent copy of _Pynson's first edition
of Chaucer's Works_, in folio, which is now in the
collection of Earl Spencer.]

LIS. He means "under the hammer."--Ladies are not supposed to know
these cramp Latin phrases.--

LYSAND. Well, "under the hammer:"--if, I say, such a collection were
now to be disposed of by public auction, how eager and emulous would
our notorious book-collectors be to run away with a few splendid
spoils!

We will next notice a not less valuable collection, called the
_Bibliotheca Monroiana_; or the library of Dr. JOHN MONRO;[405] the
sale of which took place in the very year, and a little before, the
preceding library was disposed of. Don't imagine that Monro's books
were chiefly medical; on the contrary, besides exhibiting some of the
rarest articles in Old English literature, they will convince
posterity of the collector's ac