26 ACCOUNTS; ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



English Books. 



Two copies of each of two issues of an " Indulgence," printed 

 on one sheet. Wynkyn de Worde, 1498. 



The Boke of Surveying. R. Redman [about 1535]. 



Acte for kepynge of milche kyen. 1555. 



Psalter. J. White [about 1560]. 



Lyly. Euphues. T. East for G. Cawood, 1587-88. (Huth 

 copy.) " 



Charles Gibbon. A work worth the reading. T. Orwin, 

 1591. Only one other copy recorded. 



Chapman. Ovid's Banquet of Sence. R. Smith, 1595. 



Munday. A true knowledge of a man's own self. (From 

 the French of Du Plessis Mornay.) I. R. for W. Leake, 1602. 



Norden. A Pensive Man's Practice. 1610. 



Taylor, the Water Poet. The Nipping or Snipping of 

 Abuses. E. Griffin, 1614. 



Webster. The most pleasant historic of Curan. B, Alsop,. 

 1617. 



Greene. Thieves falling out. For Henry Bell, 1617. 



Ford. The Famous History of Parismus, 1636. 



Bunyan. I will pray with the Spirit. Second edition, 1663. 

 No copy of the first and no other copy of this edition is 

 recorded. 



Cardinal Mazarin. Last Will and Testament. P. Lillicup^ 



1663. In a tine binding by Bedford. 



Mai^s. 



Cosmographie Blaviane. J. Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1663. A 

 fine copy of the French edition of Blaeu's "Atlas Major" in 

 twelve large folio volumes. 



A map of part of Dutch Guyana. W. Faden, London, 1804. 

 An important map of the Dutch Settlements in South America, 

 showing the produce of the country. 



The United States of North America, &c. A series of six 

 " Treaty Maps," showing the boundaries between the United 

 States and Canada from 1783 to 1841. 



Music. 

 The purchases of music have been unusually important. 

 Chief among them was the acquisition of a collection of 158 

 part-books of madrigals, motets, psalms, &c. published in 

 England, the Netherlands or Italy between 1565 and 1620. 

 Among the many rarities in this collection especial mention 

 may be made of the Tenor, Quintus and Sextus parts of Cosyn's 

 Psalms (London, 1585) and complete sets of the " Cantica 

 Sacra" for six voices (Antwerp, 1618) and the " Canzonette " 

 (Antwerp, 1620) of Richard Dering. Other rare works acquired 



