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process of time many were disposed of. Sales of books were made 

 in 1713, 1745, and at subsequent dates. On June 20, 1872, the 

 Council, on the recommendation of the Library Committee, resolved 

 " to dispose of superfluous books from the collection of works on 

 ' Miscellaneous Literature,' " and these probably included many 

 " Arundel books." The most valuable of the printed books of 

 purely literary interest retained by the Society were in 1883 collected 

 together, under the superintendence of the Treasurer, Sir John 

 Evans, in a case made for the purpose. They include a copy of 

 Caxton's Chaucer, and two volumes, printed on vellum, by Fust 

 and Schoeffer, named the Liber Sextus Decretalium cum glossis 

 (A.D. 1465), and Cicero's Officia et Paradoxa (A.D. 1466) ; a very 

 perfect example of Albrecht Diirer's Historia Maries, Passio Domini, 

 et Apocalipsis, in one volume (A.D. 1511) ; a copy of the Nuremburg 

 Chronicle ; a very fine copy of Euclidis Elementa, Editio Princeps 

 (Venetiis. Ratdolt, 1482), with illuminated initials ; a number of 

 Editiones Principes of the Latin Classics, including many Aldines, 

 a large collection of Luther's and of scarce Reformation tracts, and 

 many other works of literary or typographical interest. 



The bulk of the Arundel manuscripts was sold to the Trustees 

 of the British Museum in 1830 for the sum of 3559, the proceeds 

 being devoted to the purchase of scientific books ; these manuscripts 

 are still kept in the British Museum as a separate collection. A 

 catalogue of all the manuscripts and printed books originally given 

 to the Society by Henry Howard of Norfolk was printed in 1681, and 

 a copy of the same is in the Society's Library. 



The scientific books in the Library probably number about 

 60,000 volumes. In the purchase of books, special attention has 

 for many years past been paid to scientific serials ; and the collection 

 of Journals and of the Transactions of Scientific Societies is now a 

 very large one. The Council annually votes a sum of 400 for the 

 purchase and binding of books. 



A Catalogue of the Scientific Books in two octavo volumes is on 

 sale. Part I. (1881) containing Transactions, Journals, etc., 55. ; 



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