in 1790, L2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on
back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777).
Leaf 12 x 8 in.

19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris,
Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]

_Fol. 1_: Aeneae siluii poaetae laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus
ama_n_tibus p_r_aefatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem
Slik f[oe]liciter incipit. _Fol. 2^b_: Aeneae siluii in hystoria_m_ de
duobus ama_n_tibus p_rae_fatio secunda ad Martinu_m_ Sozinu_m_,
Senensem, iuris utriusque p_er_spicacissimum interpretem iocunde
incipit. _Fol. 4^a_: Aeneae siluii de duobus ama_n_tibus hystoria
perq_uam_ iocunde incipit! _Fol. 44^b_: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas
Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; COLOPHON:
Aene_ae_ Siluii po_ae_te laureati de duobus ama_n_tibus eurialo _et_
lucresia, finit f[oe]licit_er_. _Fol. 45, 46, blank._

Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^6], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23
lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces
left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216.

Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen
ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in
alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting.

This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were
printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne
in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of
the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these
three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type,
copied from the _Caesar_ of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only
two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates,
named.

To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions--not to speak of the
translations--of this novel described by Hain, Copinger's Supplement
adds half as many more. The present edition is perhaps the third.
Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books,
could trace but four copies. This makes a fifth.

The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red
morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir William Burrell. It passed
from his possession some years before his death and was bought by
Michael Wodhull