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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Philostratus, Flavius. Philostratou eis ton Apollōniou tou Tyaneōs bion biblia octō. Trans. Alamanno Rinuccini. Venice: Aldus Manutius, March 1501–February 1502.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for 10s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 945 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 2s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 4999/D).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 40 (£1). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5. — MS catalogue (2), no. 412 (with two X’s beside the title).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “title mended.”
Digital version: EEB.
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Lodewycksz, Willem. Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indian Orientalem. Amsterdam: Cornelia Nicolas, 1598.
Illustrated. With bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 388 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 3603/D).
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 36 (£1).
Digital version: EEB (Morris copy).

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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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Bergomensis, Jacobus Philippus [Jacobo Filippo Foresti]. Supplementum supplementi de le Chroniche . . . vulgarizato et hystoriato. Venice: Giovanni Francesco and Giovanni Antonio Rusconi, 1524.
Illustrated. With bibliographical note by Cockerell laid in.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 163 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 2s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 793/D).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 44 (£3). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5 (£1 15s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 448 (with two X’s beside the title).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”
Digital versions: Early European Books (Morris copy).— Internet Archive (Morris copy).

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April 6, 2017
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