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Paradis, Barcelona, 1495 ; Juan de Lucena, Tratado de la vida 

 beata, Burgos, 1502 ; Guido de Colonna, La Coronica Troyana, 

 Seville, 1519, a most beautiful book ; and the third edition 

 of the Celestina, 1501. The first edition of this famous 

 play is lost, and only one copy of the second is known to 

 exist. 



Among the acquisitions of celebrated foreign books in all 

 departments of literature may be enumerated the fine and 

 extremely rare Virgil printed by Georgius Coci at Saragossa 

 in 1512, the first complete edition printed in Spain ; " Horo- 

 logium Devotionis," and " Tractatus de Spiritualibus Ascen- 

 sionibus," by Gerardus de Zutphania, bound in one volume, 

 and both printed by Ulric Zell at Cologne, about 1490 ; 

 Die XXIV. Alden of die gulden Troyn, by Otto von Passau, 

 Cologne, 1492, full of curious woodcuts ; St. Thomas Aquinas, 

 Commentary on Boethius^ Guillaume Le Boy, Lyons ; Dictes 

 et autorites des saiges philosophes, Lyons ; Augustine, De 

 conflictu vitiorum et virtutum, Keysere and Stoll, Paris, 

 about 1477 j Le Coustoumier de Poictou, Poitiers, 1508; 

 Mirabilia liomae, first edition, Treviso, 1475 ; Savonarola, 

 Triumphus Crucis de Veritate Fidei [Florence, 1492], printed 

 on vellum ; Rabelais^ Oeuvres, Antwerp, 1573 ; five ancient 

 Polish law-books, remarkable as the most ancient printed 

 in that language ; the Prolusiones of Octavius Ferrarius, 

 Chemnitz, 1664, the first book printed at Chemnitz ; Voer- 

 thusius, Phoenicis sive consecrationis Augustae liber unus, 

 Antwerp, [1562], a parallel between Charles V. and 

 Charlemagne, printed on vellum, with a dedication to the 

 Elector of Cologne stamped in gold upon the binding ; a 

 remarkable and undescribed Italian-German vocabulary, 

 Venice, 1495 ; and ' Beglement de la Conf rerie de I'adoration 

 perpetuelle du S. Sacrement," 1771, the first book printed at 

 Montreal. 



The acquisitions in early English and Scotch literature 

 would have made the year memorable, even witliout the 

 Johnson purchase. The delectus of sentences from Terence 

 with interlinear English translation, printed with Machlinia's 

 types about 1485, and bought at the third Ashburnham sale, 

 is one of the rarest of old English books, and renowned as a 

 typographical curiosity. The first edition of Richard Stony- 

 hurst's translation of the first four books of the Aeneid 

 [Leyden, 1582], acquired on the same occasion, is even more 

 rare, no other copy being known but that in the Britwell 

 Library. It is further remarkable as an attempt at a line by 

 line translation in the metre of the original, and for the 

 preposterous character of its diction. Other noteworthy 

 acquisitions are, Rhodes, The Booke of Nurture for Men Ser- 

 vauntes and Children, 1565 : William Roy, Read me frinde 

 and be not wroth, second edition, Wesel, 1546 : The Court of 

 Civill Courtesie, out of the Italian [of Ortensio Lando], 

 1591 : Translation of the States of Holland's Manifesto, 

 1571 : An English version of the Imitation, probably printed 



