The following titles are bound together:
[1] Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. In Somnium Scipionis M. Tullii Ciceronis libri duo, et saturnaliorum lib. VII. Paris: Jodocus Ascensius Badius, 1524.
Illustrated.
Digital version: Gallica.
[2] Velleius Paterculus. Historiae Romanae duo volumina. Basel: Johann Froben, 1520.
Illustrated.
[3] Herodotus. Historiarum patris Musae. Paris: Jodocus Ascensius Badius and Johann Parvus, August 1528.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 779 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — J. R. Abbey. — Abbey sale, Sotheby, 21 June 1965, part 1, lot 546 (sold for £78 [?]). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 30 (£1) [for the volume].
Sotheby 1898:

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Meliadus de Leonnoys. Paris: Galliot du Pré, 25 November 1528.
Provenance: Jean Joseph, baron de la Roche Lacarelle. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 788 (sold to Stevens for £40). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 244 (£35). — MS catalogue (2), no. 954, p. 88.
Sotheby 1898:

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Lemaire, Jean. Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye. Ed. Petrus Lavinius. [Paris]: François Regnault, [1528?].
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 753 (sold to Breslauer for £2 4s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 249 (£2). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 6v (£1 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 385 (with two X’s next to it).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “woodcuts (badly worm eaten towards the end).”
Sotheby 1898:

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May 29, 2017
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