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Estevan de Villegas on the Life and Miracles of Our Lord, 

 made by Father Lodovico Bertonio, and stated to have been 

 printed at Juli, 1612. Juli, then a missionary station, is a 

 small town on the western shore of the Lake of Titicaca, 

 more than 12,000 feet above the level of the sea. It is 

 questionable whether the book was not printed at Lima, and 

 transported to Juli ; but its publication actually took place 

 at this remote spot, and the acquisition of this exceedingly 

 rare volume completes the Museum collection of books bearing 

 this imprint. 



Letter of Joseph Antequera y Castro, Governor of Paraguay, 

 at the time in prison, to the Bishop of Paraguay, with the 

 Bishop's answer, San Javier, 1727. This book is so rare that 

 Senor Medina was unable to describe it from inspection in his 

 magnificent bibliography of Argentine and Paraguayan books. 

 It is one of the seven early Paraguayan books which were 

 printed with tin types, from the want of proper metal for 

 alloy, which occasions the impression to be very indistinct. 

 Four of these books are now in the Museum. 



Three very rare Spanish grammars of Indian languages : 

 Arte de la lengua Cahita, 1737 ; Los Reyes, Arte de la lengua 

 Mixteca, 1750 ; Basalengue, Arte de la lengua Tarasca, 1714. 



A most interesting acquisition of a Bible has been made in 

 one of the only two fragmentsjknown to exist of the Lithuanian 

 version of the Scriptures by Jan Bretkun, edited by S. B. 

 Chylinski, the printing of which was commenced in London 

 about 1660, but never completed. This fragment comprises 

 the Old Testament as far as Joshua xv. The other known 

 fragment, which is in the library of the Ecclesiastical 

 Academy at St. Petersburg, extends as far as Psalm xl. The 

 first edition of the Nuremberg or Weimar Bible, Nuremberg 

 1641, has also been purchased. The additions in Liturgies 

 include an unique copy of the St. Malo Missal, Rouen, 1503 ; 

 a book of Hours, hitherto undescribed, probably printed at 

 Lyons by Mark Reinhard, about 1490 ; the Magdeburg and 

 Halberstadt Missal, Nuremberg, 1503; and three editions of 

 the Quignon breviary between 1560 and 1564. 



Several important additions have been made to the collec- 

 tion of Latin incunabula, particularly fragments of an 

 unknown edition of Donatus de octo partibus orationis, found 

 in a binding of 1471 ; and two bulls of Pope Sixtus IV. in 

 favour of the church of Saintes, Cologne and Memmingen, 

 1482. It is curious that bulls concerning a French church 

 should have been printed in Germany. Other important 

 acquisitions are the Summa of Nicolaus de Auximo, printed 

 by Matthaeus Moravus and Michael de Monacho at Genoa, 

 1474 : the first book printed in this city, where only three 

 were produced in the fifteenth century. Petrus de Ancharano, 

 Consilia, Adam Rot, Rome, 1473. The Liber Pandectarum 



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