Bourgouyn, Simon. L’espinette du jeune prince conquerant le royaulme de bonne renommee. [Paris]: Michel Le Noir, 1514.
Provenance: Rev. Thomas Crofts. — Crofts sale (London, 1783), lot 4788. — John Monro. — Michael Wodhull. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 317 (sold to Leighton for £21 5s.). — Leighton. — C. W. Dyson Perrins. — H. P. Kraus. — Lessing J. Rosenwald. — Library of Congress (PQ1605.B755 A65, Rosenwald Collection) [gift from Rosenwald].
Digital version: Library of Congress.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 18b, no. 228 (£20).

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[1] Regiomontanus, Joannes. Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei. Venice: Johannes Hamman for Kaspar Grossch and Stephan Roemer, 31 August 1496.
Reference: ISTC (ir00111000).
Digital version: BSB.
[2] Puerbach, Georg von. Tabulae eclypsium. Vienna: J. Winterburger, 15 April 1514.
[3] Stoeffler, Johannes. Tabulae astronomicae. Tübingen: T. Anshelmus, 1514.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 982 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6 10s.) — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (5.b.2 (SR)).
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[1] Arte para bien confessar. [Seville?: Jacob Cromberger?, between 1511 and 1515.]
Illustrated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (£1 16s.).
[2] Villegas, Pedro Fernández de. Flosculus sacramentorum. Paris: Rembolt, 1510.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 73 (sold to Quaritch for £3). — Biblotheca Hispana, Quaritch catalogue [1899], no. 144 (£1 16s.). — British Library (C.107.b.22(1)) [acquired 1899].
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Grammaticus, Saxo. Danorum regum heroumque historiae. Ed. Christiiern Pedersen. Paris: Josse Bade, 15 March 1514.
With bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1106 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 5795/D).
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 4r (£1) (where it is dated 1513). — MS catalogue (2), no. 89 (with two X’s next to it).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cut letters of arms of Denmark, &c.”
Digital version: BSB.

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Placides. Le cuer de philozophie. Paris: Jean de la Garde, 5 March 1514/15.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 382 (sold to Quaritch for £4). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 253 (£2 10s.).
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Rastell, John, ed. Tabula libri assisarum et placitorum corone. [London: printed by] John Rastell, [1514?].
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 138 (sold to Pickering for £4 10s.). — Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, Pickering & Chatto, 1900, no. 1106 (£8 8s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 37 (£4) [where it is dated 1530]. — ESTC (S121691).
Digital version: EEBO.
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Bouchard, Alain. Les grandes croniques de Bretaigne, nouvellement imprimees à Paris, tant de la grande Bretaigne depuis le roi Brutus, qui la conquist et la appella Bretaigne, jusques au temps de Cadualadrus, dernier roy breton dicelle grande Bretaigne. Paris: printed by Jehan de la Roche for Galliot du Pré, 1514.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 316 (sold to Maggs for £15 15s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 18b, no. 240 (£15).
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Aimoin, de Fleury [Monachus Benedictus Annonius]. De regum procerumque: Francorum origine gestisque clarissimusque ad Philippum Augustum: libri quinque nunc primum impressi. Paris: Joannis Parvi & Ascensius, 1514.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 123 (sold to Heppenstal for 10s.). — Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, Pickering & Chatto, 1900, no. 1023 (£2 2s.). — Edith Rockefeller McCormick. — McCormick sale, American Art Association–Anderson Galleries, 23 February 1934, lot 2 [HathiTrust]. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 30 (£1). — MS catalogue (2), no. 944, p. 87 [where it is dated as 1513].
Digital version: Gallica.
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