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Maps. — Many highly interesting acquisitions of maps have 

 been made during the past year. The following are the most 

 remarkable : — Facsimile, on parchment, of the unique copy in 

 the Naval Museum, Madrid, of the Chart of the World 

 executed in 1500 by Juan de la Cosa, pilot to Columbus in his 

 first and second voyages. 



Map of the World, by Alonzo de Santa Cruz, 1542. Fac- 

 simile of the original preserved in the Royal Library at 

 Stockholm ; with explanations by E. W. Dahlgren, Stock- 

 holm, 1892, fol. 



Facsimile, in gores, of the silver globe executed by Johann 

 Hauer, of Niirnberg, 1620, and presented to Gustavus 

 Adolphus in 1G32. The original is preserved in the National 

 Museum, Stockholm. 



Carta d'ltalia illustrativa della Divina Commedia di Dante 

 Alighieri, per E. Croce. Genova, 1875. Now rare and out 

 of print. 



Bidrag till Nordens Aldsta Kartografi. Utgifna af Svenska 

 Sallskapet for Antropologi och Geografi. Stockholm, 1892, 

 fol. 



II " Mappamondo di Torino," riprodotto e descritto da G. 

 Ottino. Torino and Palermo, 1892, fol. 



Remarkable Maps of the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth 

 centuries. (Section 1. The Bodel Nyenhuis Collection at 

 Leyden.) Amsterdam. 



A set of maps of Korea, by provinces ; to which are added 

 maps of China, Japan, and the Liu Kiu Islands. Seoul 

 [1800 ?] 



Music. — The dispersion of the famous Borghese Library in 

 Rome has enabled the Museum to add several works of the 

 greatest rarity to its collection of early Italian music. Fore- 

 most among these are to be mentioned two very early operas, 

 "La Morte d'Orfeo," 1619, by Stefano Landi, and "La 

 Galatea," 1639, by Loreto Vittori, which, apart from their 

 great historical interest, are exquisite examples of musical 

 typography. Of the latter only three other copies are known to 

 exist, while the example of the former, which the Museum has 

 been fortunate enough to acquire, is believed to be unique. 

 Scarcely less interesting historically, and of equal intrinsic 

 beauty, are two collections of madrigals for three voices, with 

 an accompaniment for lute and harpsichord, edited and pub- 

 lished at Rome, by Simone Verovio, in 1589 and 1595. They 

 are entitled respectively " Ghirlanda di Fioretti Musi'cali," 

 and " Lodi della Musica," and are printed throughout from 

 engraved copperplates ; the former is probably the second 

 musical work produced by this process. 



Among the other acquisitions which once formed part of 

 the Borghese Library, may be cited a complete set of 

 Ma.razzi's Madrigals, Parma, 1577, of which only one other 



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