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largest vellum book in the world, presented in 1880 by Mr. 

 Coventry Patniore. 



Among other purchases of foreign books of special rarity 

 and interest may be mentioned: PJautus, Bononia3, 1500; 

 Onser liever vrouwen Souter, 1520 ; Margarita Evangelica, 

 Utrecht, 1525 ; Eulenspiegel, Ingolstadt, 1544, the only 

 copy known ; four early Spanish romances, Tristan de 

 Leonis, Valladolid, 1501, undescribed ; llistoria de En- 

 rique, Seville, 1501, the only copy known ; Clarian de 

 Landanis, part 2; Seville, 1535; Pierre de Provence, Bui^gos, 

 1562 ; also the second edition of the second part of Don 

 Quixote, Brussels, 1616 ; Libro overo Cronicha di tuttc 

 le guerre d'ltalia, Venice, 1522 ; Alvisio Acilio, Vero tempio 

 d'Amore, Allife, 1536; Massorillus, Aureum sacrorum hym- 

 norum opus, Fulginea3, 1547 ; L'oraison et remonstrance de 

 haulte et puissante dame Marie [Anne] de Cleves, a declama- 

 tion composed in her name by Jean de Luxembourg, Abbot of 

 Ivry, and printed at his private press at La Rivou, about 1545 ; 

 Articuli contra Cardinalem Moronum, 1558, containing the 

 exact text of the charges upon which this famous Cardinal 

 was imprisoned by Pope Paul IV. ; Calvin, De vitandis super- 

 stitionibus, Geneva, 1550; Seclucyan, Catechismus, Kbnigs- 

 berg, 1568 ; Porthaise, Parasceve generale, Poitiers, 1602 ; 

 Diogo Bernardes, Flores da Lima, Lisbon, 1597, first edition ; 

 Satyres sur les femmes bourgeoises [1713] ; Tansillo, II Podere, 

 Bodoni, Parma 1806, an unique copy printed on vellum for 

 General Junot ; 34 modern reprints of French miracle plays on 

 vellum ; Papanti, Novelline popolari, Livorno 1877, printed on 

 kid«kin vellum ; a modern English translation of Kulandus' 

 Lexicon of Alchemy, of which six copies only were printed ; the 

 official gazette of Don Carlos during the Spanish Civil War, 

 printed at the Carlist headquarters at Onate from 1835 to 

 1837 ; " The Liberal and New Dispensation," the official 

 journal of the Brahmo Somaj, Calcutta ; Bradshaw's Railway 

 Guide for October 1839, the first issue in book form. 



The most important of several interesting collections which 

 -liave been acquired during the year is one of upwards of 

 1,200 papal Bulls and other public documents of the 16th and 

 I7th centuries, recently purchased in Italy by the Earl of 

 Crawford, and given by him in exchange for duplicate 

 English broadsides. Between 300 and 400 documents of the 

 latter class, mostly of the I7th and 18th centuries, have also 

 been added to the library. Other purchases of this description 

 include a large number of legal papers relating to proceedings 

 before the Edinburgh Law Courts ; an extensive series of 

 documents printed privately for the State prosecution of 

 Mr. Parnell and others in 1879-80 ; proclamations and public 

 notices officially issued in the City of Brunswick from 1600 

 to 1771 ; the general orders of Marshal Beresford to the 

 Portuguese army, 1809 to 1823 : and broadsides and carica- 

 tures 



