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Claude Gervaise, Quart liure contenant xxvj. chansons 

 musicalles a troys parties. Paris, 1550. 



John Adson, Courtly Masquing Ayres composed to 5 or 6 

 parts. T.S, for John Brown, London, 1621. Six partsi in one 

 volume. 



Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres. W. Stansby, London, 

 1632. The only perfect copy known. 



John Gamble, Ayres and Dialogues, London, 1656, and the 

 Second Book of the same, London, 1659. With a power of 

 attorney signed by the composer inserted. Of the Second Book 

 only two other copies appear to be on record. 



A volume of compositions by Bach and Mendelssohn, once in 

 Mendelssohn's possession and with his autograph, also a volume 

 of first editions of compositions by Schumann with autograph 

 inscriptions by him. 



Maps. 



The first and second issue of Le Theatre Frangois par Maurice 

 Bouguereau, Tours, 1594, and three editions (Paris, 1621, 1626, 

 1637) of the Theatre geographique du Royaume de France, these 

 additions makinig the Museum set of early French atlases excep- 

 tionally complete. Preseiited by Sir H. George Fordham. 



A collection of 102 maps, containing some very fine specimens 

 of 18th-century cartography, among them a number of excellent 

 English county maps. Presented by R. Holland Martin, Esq., 



A collection of thirty-nine maps and plans of Western 

 Flanders, of the period around 1850, including Ypres, Dixmude, 

 Nieuport, etc., of interest as giving in great detail the land 

 on which many battles were fought during the War. 



Alfred W. Pollard. 



