22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The acquisitions of remarkable early French books, or 

 books printed in France, include a rare Cistercian Breviary, 

 Paris, 1506; Chemin de lospital, Lyon, 1505 ; Treize elegantes 

 demandes damour, Paris, 1530, a version of a portion of 

 Boccaccio's Filocopo ; Vergier Spirituel et Mystique, Anvers, 

 1535; Histoire de Guillaume de Palerme, Lyon, 1552; Du 

 Bellay, Eecueil de Poesies, Paris, 1553 ; Du Boulay, Le combat 

 de la chair et de I'esprit, Paris, 1549 ; four very rare Calvinistic 

 tracts, printed at Geneva about 1550 ; Traitc des Dames, 

 Paris, 1579 ; and Forcadel, Q^uvres Poetiques, Paris, 1579, 

 the last and only complete edition, and a very beautiful book. 



Among interesting Italian acquisitions not already named 

 among incunabula may be mentioned Gazoldus, Anthropo- 

 viographia, [Bologna, 1512 ?], erroneously referred by Brunet 

 to an earlier period ; Guidiccione, Novella, Bologna, 1547, a 

 book of great rarity ; and a copy on vellum of a Bull of Pope 

 Pius v., August 16, 1567, extending the privileges of the 

 Mendicant Friars, with a spirited portrait of the Pope, in an 

 engraving representing him delivering the document to the 

 Mendicants. 



The purchases of rare books printed in the Spanish Pen- 

 insula have been especially numerous and important. They 

 comprise the first Spanish translation of Csesar, Toledo, 1498; 

 Gundisalvo de Villadiego, Tractatus de irregularitate, Sal- 

 manticse, 1496 ; Michael Albert, Pepertorium de pravitate 

 hereticorum, Valencia, 1494 ; F. Ximenes, Sanctos Angeles, 

 Burgos, 1490; Lucius Marineus Siculus, De Hispaniae Laudibus 

 [Salamanca? 1497?], suppressed in this first edition, no other 

 copy of which is known ; Silva, Segunda Comedia de Celes- 

 tina, Medina del Campo, 1534 ; Ortega, Arithmetica, Barcelona, 

 1512 ; Fasciculus Mirrhe, Burgos, 1511 ; Las Sergas de 

 Esplandian, a continuation of Amadis of Gaul, first and 

 extremely rare edition, executed by A ntonio de Salamanca, 

 the printer of the Roman edition of the Amadis ; Fernandez 

 de Heredia, Obras, Valencia, 1562, extremely rare ; Jarava's 

 translation of portions of the Scriptures, bound up with 

 Brucioli's Orationi into a charming little volume, with a 

 lettering showing it to have been the companion of some 

 persecuted Huguenot; a collection of villanclcos or Christmas 

 carols of the seventeenth century ; Alfay, Poesias Varias, 

 Zaragoza, 1654, containing in this copy two lyrics by Gongora 

 which are almost always wanting. Two valuable Portuguese 

 books have been acquired in the Letters of Jesuit Missionaries, 

 printed at Coimbra in 1562 ; and the Prima e Honra da vida 

 soldadesca no estado de India, Lisboa, 1680, an anonymous 

 and very rare book, written at the zenith of the Portuguese 

 power about 1570, exceedingly interesting for the light it 

 throws on the relations of the Portuguese with the natives. 

 The chief purchase among Spanish-American books has been 

 that of the Mexican Gazette from 1784 to 1817, important for 

 the history of the country. 



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