library in 1790, £2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on
back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777).
Leaf 12 × 8 in.


19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris,
Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]

_Fol. 1_: Aeneæ siluii poætæ laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus
ama_n_tibus p_r_æfatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem
Slik fœliciter incipit. _Fol. 2^b_: Aeneæ siluii in hystoria_m_ de
duobus ama_n_tibus p_rae_fatio secunda ad Martinu_m_ Sozinu_m_,
Senensem, iuris utriusque p_er_spicacissimum interpretem iocunde
incipit. _Fol. 4^a_: Aeneæ siluii de duobus ama_n_tibus hystoria
perq_uam_ iocunde incipit! _Fol. 44^b_: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas
Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; COLOPHON:
Aene_æ_ Siluii po_æ_te laureati de duobus ama_n_tibus eurialo _et_
lucresia, finit fœlicit_er_. _Fol. 45, 46, blank._

Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^6], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23
lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces
left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216.

Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen
ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in
alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting.

This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were
printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne