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ORSINI, Latino. A manuscript copy of Trattato del radio latino taken from the Rome, Vincentio Accolti edition of 1583. [N.p.: circa 1600-1640]. 4° (265 x 195mm.). (64) ll. illustrated with eight large pen-and-ink drawings (versos blank) and 18 ink drawings and diagrams distributed through the text (all after illustrations in the printed work). Bound with 16 other manuscript texts (264 ll. in total) in various hands on different papers, all 17th-century. 18th-century vellum over boards. Provenance: Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guildford (sale 8-12 December 1830 lot 285); Sir Thomas Phillipps (shelf-mark on spine 7536, sale Sotheby's 28 June 1966 lot 507); Robert Honeyman (sale Sotheby's 2 May 1979 lot 1229). -- Polydore VERGIL. De gli Inventori delle cose. Libri otto. Florence: Giunta, 1587. 8° (214 x 150mm.). (Hole in G5 with loss of a few letters.) 18th-century half vellum (slightly rubbed). -- And 2 others ([John BARROW]. Dictionarium Polygraphicum: or the whole body of arts regularly digested. London: 1735. 2 volumes, 8°.) (4)