Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . -cludes on the reverse of the 30th and last leaf: having the followingcolophon : finite fiint contcmplationejsf iHcucrcnbif^imi patrijef bo-mini Sloftani^ tie Currccremata ^acco^anctc iHomanetttlit Carbinalii^ polite i ticpictc tie ip^iii^ mat»ato inecriie abitu ^sfancte matie tie fll^inerua iHome* g atial^ticu gallum alemanu %xmtx bomini. ^tttt\xx\snl E>ieiteco, ix. SDecemliri^ iJcgnante ^ixxn OSuarto


Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . -cludes on the reverse of the 30th and last leaf: having the followingcolophon : finite fiint contcmplationejsf iHcucrcnbif^imi patrijef bo-mini Sloftani^ tie Currccremata ^acco^anctc iHomanetttlit Carbinalii^ polite i ticpictc tie ip^iii^ mat»ato inecriie abitu ^sfancte matie tie fll^inerua iHome* g atial^ticu gallum alemanu %xmtx bomini. ^tttt\xx\snl E>ieiteco, ix. SDecemliri^ iJcgnante ^ixxn OSuarto ^ontificettia^imo* As in the previous edition, the work is called Meditationes in thetitle, but Contemplationes in the colophon. This copy, althoughsound and desirable, is much inferior to that of the first edition in sizeand condition. It is bound in blue morocco by Lewis. 280 MISCELLANEOUS. 1280. TURRECREMATA, I. DE. MeDITATIONES. Printed hy Phinck, at Rome. 1498. Quarto. This is an extremely neat little volume, and estimable as one in thevery valuable series of early editions of this work in the present title, as before, in four lines, is above the following This is on the recto of a{i). The signatures, to J, run in eights. Allthe cuts, in the preceding editions, are copied, (and varied in the imita-tion) in the present impression. Of these cuts perhaps the most MISCELLANEOUS. 281 tion) in the present impression. Of these cuts, perhaps the mostelaborate and neat is the one of the adoration of the wise men, on thereverse of a vj, thus :


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