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beautiful Venetian Breviary of 1490, on vellum, purchased at 

 the Ashburnham sale, is also a valuable acquisition. 



Among miscellaneous purchases of remarkable foreign 

 books, the following may be especially mentioned : Dupin,, 

 Livre de bone vie, qui est appelle madevie, Chambery, 1485, 

 the third book printed at Chambery ; Les Grandes Merveilles 

 [Paris, 1530 ?] a very curious satire on the voyagers of the time, 

 apparently unknown to bibliographers ; Fleur de la vraye 

 poesie Frangoyse, a rare undated edition not mentioned by 

 Brunet ; a beautifully printed French translation of Petrarch's 

 Trionfi, Paris, 1520 ; Luxembourg, Oraison de Marie de 

 Cleves, 1549 ; Machiavelli, 11 Prencipe, Roma, 1532 ; Aonio 

 Paleario, Ad Lucenses, 1551, extremely rare ; Gaspar Gomes, 

 Tercera parte de la tragedia de Celestina, Toledo, 1539, also 

 of the highest rarity ; Caesarius Cisterciensis, Dialog! 

 Miraculorum, Ulric Zell, Cologne ; Copia de diversas cartas 

 de algunos padres y hermanos de la compania de Jesus, 

 Barcelona, 1556 ; Ordine della Compagnia del Salvatore, 

 Brescia, 1581 ; Lettre Circulaire des Dames Religieuses de la 

 Visitation de Chaillot sur les dernieres annees du feu Roy 

 d'Angleterre, Jacques II., one of a series of letters acquired 

 at the same time, printed and privately issued by the nuns 

 on occasion of the deaths of members of the convent or of 

 persons especially connected with it. 



The most important accession in early English literature, 

 after those already mentioned, is of very great interest, being 

 an unique and hitherto unknown edition of the fourth century 

 of Heywood's Epigrams, London, 1560. So late as 1891 

 Heywood's Epigrams were stated upon high authority to 

 have been first published in 1562. In 1894, however, the 

 Museum purchased an earlier edition, also unique as far as 

 known, of the first three centuries, and this edition of the 

 fourth completes the set. Two exceedingly rare editions of 

 Dame Juliana Berner's Boke of Hawkynge, Huntynge and 

 Fysshynge, one undated, printed by John Waley and 

 another printed by Edward Allde, 1586, were bought at the 

 Ashburnham sale. In the Manipulus Curatorum, Wynkyn 

 de Worde, 1502, the Museum has acquired what may not 

 improbably be the first dated English edition of this 

 frequently printed book. 



Four early and rare editions of works by Bunyan have 

 been purchased — Pilgrim's Progress, Edinburgh, 1680; 

 Pharisee and Publican, 1685 ; Come and Welcome, second 

 edition, 1686 ; Barren Fig Tree, fourth edition, 1695. Pur- 

 chases in later English literature include a great curiosity, 

 the poems of John Lamb, the half brother of Charles Lamb, 

 contemptible as poetry, but extremely scarce ; the excessively 

 rare '' Fables " of John Hookham Frere, printed at Malta ; 

 and three publications connected with great English poets — 

 the privately printed and anonymous remonstrance of John 

 Cam Hobliouse (Lord Broughton) with the Dean and Chapter 

 of Westminster on their exclusion of Byron's monument from 



