24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The total number of articles enumerated above, as having 

 been received in the- Department during the past year, 

 exclusive of newspapers, is 109,283. 



Acquisitions of Special Interest. — Ninety English and 

 Scotch books printed before the year 1640, and forty-two 

 foreign Incunabula, have been acquired during the year 1905. 



Among the English books the most interesting are : — 



Basille, Theodore, i.e., Thomas Becon : "A Christmas 

 Banket garnished with many pleasant and dainty dishes. By 

 Theodore Basille." Printed by John Mayler for John Gough, 

 London, 1542. 



" The Order of the Greate Turckes Court." R. Grafton, 

 London, 1542. This book is mentioned by Dibdin, but no 

 other copy has been discovered. 



" An Almanacke and Pronostication of Jaspar Laet, anno 

 1546." Printed by John Herford, 1545. Hitherto unknown. 

 Taken from a binding. 



Bale, John, Bishop of Ossory : " The seconde parte of 

 the Image of both Churches." Printed in 1549 or 1550. No 

 copy of the first part of this book is recorded. The present 

 is the only copy of the second part known. 



" Disputatio inter clericum et militem super potestate 

 Prelatis Ecclesiae atque Principibus terrarum commissa." 

 Thomas Berthelet, London, about 1550. 



Virgilius : "Opera." H. Bynneman, London, 1570. 

 Believed to be the first edition of Yirgil's works printed 

 in England. 



Vegetius, Flavins: "The foure Bookes of Martiall 

 Policye." Thomas Marshe, London, 1572. With several 

 woodcuts. 



Yates, James : " The Castle of Courtesie " and " The 

 Hould of Humilitie." Two books printed by John Wolfe, 

 London, 1582. 



Valdes, Francisco de : "A Dialogue of the Office of a 

 Sergeant Major." J. Wolfe, London, 1590. 



Sidney, Sir Philip : " The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. 

 The Second Edition." W. Ponsonbie, London, 1593. The 

 first edition, printed in 1590, and the third in 1598, are 

 already in the Library. For this second edition the emble- 

 matical title-page used in later editions and in other books 

 was designed. 



" Regimen Sanitatis Salerni. The School e of Salerne." 

 Benj. Alsop, London, 1617. This appears to be the only 

 printed English translation of the Regimen of the School of 

 Salerno. 



" The Laws or Standing Orders of the East India Com- 

 pany, 1621." The earliest edition of the Regulations of the 

 East India Company at present in the Library was published 

 in 1700 or 1701. 



" Ecclesiae Gemitus sub Anabaptistica Tyrannide." Printed 

 in 1649 and bearing the imprint " ^rae Martyrii Caroli anno 

 primo." 



