The following titles are bound together:
[1] Ceva, Bonifacio da. Excellentissimum opus de perfectione christiana. Paris: Johannis Parvi, 1517.
Illustrated.
Digital version: EEB.
[2] Ceva, Bonifacio da. Viatice excursiones ad reverendi in Christo patris et domini. Paris: Jean Petit, 1515.
Illustrated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 18b, no. 239 (£10s.).
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 264 (sold to Breslauer for £5). — Unlocated.
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Virgil. Opera Vergiliana docte & familiariter exposita. 2 vols. in 1. Lyon: Jacobo Sachon, 1517.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1195 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 6552/D).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 193 (£6). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5v (£3 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 668 (with two X’s next to it).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”

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Chanut, Etienne [Stephanus Chanutus]. Regimen castitatis conservativum Arbori judaice junctum nusquam exaratum. Toulouse: Jean Faure, 1517.
Illustrated.
Provenance: William H. Crawford. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 350 (sold to Quaritch for £8). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 268 (£7).
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Durante, Pietro. Libro chiamato Leandra, qual tracta delle battaglie e gran facti de li baroni di Francia. Venice: Allexandro di Bindoni, 5 July 1517,
Provenance: Morris. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (2014 2215).
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Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann. Die brösamlin doot. Strasbourg: Johann Grüninger, 1517
Provenance: Morris (purchased for £3). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 542 (sold to Quaritch for £6). — Quaritch catalogue 353 (May 1919), no. 124 (£12) [HathiTrust]. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 12b, no. 148 (£5). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 4 (£3). — MS catalogue (2), no. 81 (with two X’s next to it).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”
Digital version: BSB.
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Oppianou halieutikōn, Biblia pente. Tou autou kynēgetikōn Biblia tessara. Oppiani De piscibus libri V. Eiusdem Ee Venatione libri IIII. Oppiani De piscibus Laurentio Lippio interprete libri V. Venice: [Aldus & A. Asulanus], [1517].
Provenance: William Bury. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 652 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / A 4493/A )
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (10s). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 7 (10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 75 (with two X’s next to it).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “woodcuts.”
Digital copy: Internet Archive (Morris copy).
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Riesch, Gregor. Margarita philosophica cum additionibus nouis. Basel: Michael Furter, 1517.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Benedictine Abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra (Augsburg). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 879 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £5). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / B 5411/B/1).
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 5b, no. 53 (£2) [first entry].
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Riesch, Gregor. Margarita philosophica cum additionibus nouis. Basel: Michael Furter, 1517.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Marie-Auguste de Sultzbach. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 880 (sold to Ellis for £2 2s.). — William T. Smedley. — Folger Library (AE3 .R3 1517 Cage).
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 5b, no. 53 (£1) [second entry].

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Pérez de Guzmán, Fernán. Comiença la cronica del serenissimo rey don Juan el segundo deste nombre. Logroño: Arnao Guillén de Brocar, 1517.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 573 (sold to Heppenstal for £9 10s.). — John B. Stetson. — Stetson sale, American Art Association (New York), 17 April 1935, lot 84 (sold for $55). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (£12).
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Aurelius, Cornelius. Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt ende Vrieslant, beghinnende van Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jhesum, voertgaende tot den jare MCCCCC ende XVII. Leyden: Jan Suersz, 1517.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 354 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 14s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 2b, no. 18 (£3).
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