LERI, || Greiffenhagii, || DISQUISITIO || Geographica &
Historica, || De || CHATAJA, || In Qua || I. Praecipue Geographorum
nobilis || illa Controversia: Quaenam CHATAJA sit, & an || sit idem ille
terrarum tractus, quem Sinas, & vul-|| go Chinam vocant, aut pars ejus
aliqua? || latissime tractatur; || 2. Eadem vero opera pleraque rerum,
quae unquam || de Chataja, deque Sinis memorabilia || fuerunt, atque etiam
nunc sunt, compendiose || enarrantur. ||--Ecclesiastae I. v. 15. ||:
[Hebrew] || Senec. de Beneficiis VI. I. || _Etiam quod discere
supervacuum est prodest_ || cognoscere. ||--Berolini, Typis Rungianis.
|| Anno M. DC. LXX, 2 ff. not numbered + pp. 115 on 2 col.

C.--ITALIAN EDITIONS.

14.--1. Marco Polo da Venie || sia de le merauegliose || cose del Mondo.

Below this title the mark of the printer SESSA: a cat holding a mouse in
its mouth with the initials I and B on the right and on the left of the
coat of arms (with a ducal crown above) which exhibits this group, and S
at foot. Verso of f. 83:

_Finisse lo libro de Marco Polo da Venie || sia dele merauegliose cose
del modo Im || presso in Venetia per zoanne Baptista || da Sessa
Milanese del M. ccccxcvi. || adi. xiii. del mese de Iunio regna || do lo
Illustrissimo Principe Au || gustino Barbadico inclyto || Duce di
Venetia_.

Recto of folio 84: "Registro. a b c d e f g h i k l Tutti questi sono
quaderni excepto l chie duerno"; audessous le monogramme de l'imprimeur
en blanc sur fond noir.--Verso of folio 84 is blank.

The copy which I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6666. It
is in fine condition and complete, notwithstanding what the Sobolewski
Sale Catalogue says to the contrary (No. 1730): it is a small 8vo ff. 84;
each quire containing, as is indicated by the register, eight sheets,
except quire 1, which has but four.

Grenville added to his copy the following note: "This appears to be the
first edition printed in the original Italian.--The Abbe Morelli who
sent me this book from Venice had found great difficulty in procuring a
copy for the Library of St. Marc.--Panzer III. 396, refers only to the
mention made of it by Denis. Supp. I, p'e 415. I know of no other copy in
England...."

Lazari, p. 460, says: "Prima e rarissima edizione del compendio veneziano.
Un capitolo che parla di Trebisonda, tratto dal viaggio di Fr. Odorico,
precede il testo del Polo mutilo e scorrettissimo: quel capitolo non forma
pero parte d'esso