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including exchange, interest, and alligation. The work was too theoretical to bepopular, but is an excellent source for the study of the development of elementarymathematics’ (Rara arithmetica p. 415).THE SALVÁ COPY117. VEGA CARPIO, Felix Lope de. Ivsta Poetica, y Alabanzas jvstas Que hizo laInsigne Villa de Madrid al bienauenturado San Isidro en las Fiestas de suBeatificacion, recopiladas por Lope de Vega Carpio. Dirigidas a la mismaInsigne Villa. Madrid, por la viuda de Alonso Martin, 1620.4to, ff. [8], 140, with engraved title vignette illustrating the legend of San Isidro (hestands in the fields while an angel does the ploughing for him), signed I. deCourbes F.; old signature washed from title; a very good copy in nineteenth centurypolished calf gilt for Salvá, with his device stamped in gilt on the covers; laterHeredia booklabel. £9000First edition of this collection of verses, edited by Lope de Vega and includinghis own compositions, written to celebrate the beatification of San Isidro, patronsaint of Madrid, in May 1620.The eleventh century San Isidro was beatified in Rome on May 2, 1619, by PopePaul V. A festival took place in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid the following year on theanniversary of Isidro’s death, and it was for this occasion that the verses publishedhere were produced. The list of contributors runs to five pages - a roll-call ofSpanish poets active in early seventeenth century Spain. Salvá lists thecontributors in his catalogue (Catálogo de la Bibliotheca de Salvá, I, 408),presumably describing the present copy.MODERN ENGLISH HISTORY118. VERGIL, Polydore. Anglicae historiae libri vigintisex. Basel, MichaelIsingrin, 1546.Folio, pp. [2], 618, [36]; roman letter, woodcut device on title repeated on verso oflast, otherwise blank leaf; woodcut borders of renaissance ornament to leaf ofdedication (to Henry VIII) and first leaf of text; bound in in a contemporaryLouvain binding from the great Augustinian abbey of St. Gertrude, covers withouter roll border of floral and foliate ornament, on the upper cover a central panelof St. Gertrude (with a mouse at her feet and another running up her crozier) in anarchitectural frame with text ‘Sum Bibliotechae Coenobii S. Gertrudis apudLovanienses’, on the lower cover a coat-of-arms with date 1557, motto ‘Inter SpinasCalceatus’, and initials ‘P H’ of the abbot Philippe de Hosdain; old rebacking andsome wear, lacking bosses and clasps; vellum pastedowns from a medievalmanuscript (see below); ownership entry on fly-leaf ‘Ex Libris Joannis Fleming, 29Januar. 1855’. £4400Second edition, much revised, of Vergil’s English History, dedicated to Henry VIII.It is seen as the beginning of modern English historiography, as an important pieceof propaganda for the Tudor monarchy, and as an influence on Shakespeare’shistory plays.