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copyright, 567 by colonial copyright, 348 by international 

 exchange and 7,438 by purchase. 



{g) 2,796 articles have been received in the Department 

 not included in the foregoing paragraphs, comprising 

 Broadsides, Parliamentary Papers and other miscellaneous 

 items. The addition of this number to those already given 

 produces a total of 105,205 articles received in the Depart- 

 ment in the course of the year. 



Acquisitions of Special Interest. — A considerable number 

 of Incunabula have been added to the Library during the 

 year 1899. 



The most important and interesting of these are : — 



An edition of the Works of Lactantius, printed at Rome in 

 1470 by Sweynheyn and Pannartz, the initiators of printing 

 in Italy. 



Aeneas Sylvius (Pope Pius II.) "De duobus amantibus," 

 one of the 20 books printed at the Sorbonne, the first printing 

 press established in France, between the years 1470 and 

 1472. 



'' Prognosticum loannis de Lubec Almani super Antichristi 

 Aduentu ludeorumque Messiae," printed at Padua about the 

 year 1474. 



The only separate edition of the Vulgate New Testament 

 printed during the fifteenth century. This edition, which is 

 accompanied by Haymo " de Christianarum rerum memoria," 

 has been wrongly ascribed to a printer at Lou vain ; it was in 

 fact printed by Conrad of Paderborn, probably at Padua in 

 1473 or 1474. 



Twenty-five sermons of St. John Chrysostom, printed by 

 B. Azzoguicli at Bologna in 1475, a fine copy in an early 

 binding. 



" De Regimine Sanitatis," a medical work by Benedictus 

 de Nursia, printed at Rome in 1475 by the first native Italian 

 printer, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine. This is probably the 

 earliest book with a titlepage printed in Italy. 



A Latin Bible, printed by Nicholas Gotz at Cologne about 

 1476. One of the four editions of the Bible issued by this 

 printer. 



Paulus Ricius " Super Logicam Pauli Veneti," printed in 

 the Monastery of San Giacomo di Ripoli at Florence about 

 the year 1483. A work of great rarety, especially interesting 

 from the fact that the type in v»^hich it is printed is found 

 in no other known book. 



A very rare edition of the " Sachsenspiegel " in Low Saxon, 

 printed by Joachim Westphal at Stendal in 1488. 



" Propositiones Aristotelis," printed by Ugo Rugerius at 

 Bologna, 1488. 



The first edition of the " Aquila volante " of Leonardo 

 Bruni Aretino, printed by Ayolfus de Cantono at 



