Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. Le premier [et second] volume de Monseigneur sainct Augustin de la Cité de Dieu. Trans. Raoul de Presles. Paris: Nicolas Sauetier, 1531.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Lillas Lady Drummond. — Patrik Lord Drummond. — Sir Thomas Gage. — C. W. Dyson Perrins. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 146 (sold to Littlewood for £6 5s.). — Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, Pickering & Chatto, 1900, no. 1024 (£9 9s.). — Library of Congress (BR65.A64 F8 1531, Rosenwald Collection) [gift from Rosenwald].
Digital version: Library of Congress (vol. 1, vol. 2).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 265 (£7 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 937 (with two X’s beside the title).

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Boccaccio, Giovanni. de la genealogie des dieux. Paris: Philippe le Noir 1531.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS (1), fol. 4v (10s.).
Note in MS (1): “wood-cuts.”
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Rodler, Hieronymus. Eyn schön nützlich büchlin und underweisung der Kunst des Messens. Siemeren: inn Verlegung Hieronimi Rodlers, 1531.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 986 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, p. 11, no. 131 (no price). — MS catalogue (2), no. 952B, p. 88.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Jesus Maria Seneque, des motz Dorez des quatre vertus cardinales de Latin translate en francoys. Trans. Claude de Syssel. Lyon: Francoys Juste, 1531.
Illustrated.
Provenance: George Mainwaringe [?]. — Morris. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1009 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Adrian McLaughline. — Brian Lawn. — Bodleian Library (Lawn f.104).
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Dyonisius Carthusiensis. Elucidissima in divi Pauli epistolas commentaria. Paris: [Antoine Bonnemère] apud Jean Petit, 1531.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 244 (sold to Tregaskis for £6). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 163 (10 guineas). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 21 (£10).
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La treselegate, delicieuse, melliflue et tresplaisante hystoire du tresnoble victorieux excellentissime roy Perceforest, roy de la grant Bretaigne. 6 vols. in 3. Paris : E. Gormontius for Jean Petit et Ph. Lenoir, 1531–32.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris (purchased from Quaritch, 31 March 1890, for £12 12s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 940 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £21). — Henry Wellcome. — Newberry Library (Case folio YA 95 .68).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 256 (£20). — MS catalogue (2), no. 697 (with two X’s next to it).
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Diodorus, Sicilus. Bibliothecae seu rerum antiquarum tum fabulosarum tum verarum historiae, priores libri sex, Poggio Florentino interprete. Paris: Simonem Colinaeum, 1531
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 241 (sold to Downing for 18s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 30 (no price given). — MS catalogue (2), no. 49 (with three X’s next to it).
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Officia M.T.C. Augsburg: H. Steyner, 1531.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 363 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 18s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 1474/D).
Digital versions: EEB. — Internet Archive (Morris copy).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 4b, no. 43 (£5). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 6 (£1 15s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 455 (with two X’s beside the title).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”

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