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A fine edition of " Eikon Basilike," 1649. Bound in richly 

 tooled red morocco with the arms of Charles I. 



" Book of Common Prayer," Oxford, dated 1681, but issued 

 in 1689 or subsequently. Bound in red morocco with fine 

 gold tooling and the arms of William and Mary. 



Settle, Elkanah : " Fears and Dangers fairly displayed." 

 London, 1706. Bound in black morocco with the arms of 

 John, first Duke of Rutland ; a fine specimen of Settle's 

 bindings. 



" Book of Common Prayer," Oxford, 1772. Bound in 

 transparent vellum, with paintings in monochrome beneath 

 the vellum. A good specimen of the work of James Edwards 

 of Halifax, who patented a process for making vellum 

 transparent in 1785. 



Donations. — Among the many Donations with which 

 the Library has been enriched during the year 1906 are 

 the following : — 



A collection of forty-six volumes containing Translations 

 into Bohemian of the works of English and American authors, 

 published in Prague between the years 1900-1904. The 

 translations include the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare in 

 22 volumes, and novels and other books by J. M. Barrie, 

 R. D. Blackmore, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 

 Rudyard Kipling,. Mark Twain, and other authors. Presented 

 by H.M. the King. 



A collection of one hundred and fifty-eight unknown 

 books or editions, formed by Mr. W. M. Voynich. The 

 collection includes fourteen incunabula ; thirty-one books 

 printed between 1500 and 1532 ; three editions of the " Sex 

 Linguarum Dictionarius," 1536, 1541, and 1548 ; a copy of 

 Stanford's " Plees del Coron," 1560, with an interesting 

 portrait medallion of Queen Elizabeth stamped on the bind- 

 ing ; four Icelandic books printed between 1691 and 1694 ; 

 seventeen books printed in small towns such as Aix, Annecy, 

 Assisi, Asti, Cuneo, Lodi, &c., and three separate issues of the 

 Atlas of Italy by Giovanni Antoni Magini, published in 1620 

 and a few years later. Presented by the Lord Strathcona and 

 Mount Royal, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., and others. 



" tJber den Durchstich der Landenge von Stagno." (By 

 Archduke Ludwig Salvator.) Prague, 1906. Presented by 

 H.I. and R.H. the Archduke Ludwig Salvator. 



" The Bishop Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of 

 Art of the City of New York. Investigations and studies 

 in Jade." 2 vols. Privately printed, New York, 1906. 

 Bequeathed by the late Mr. Heber R. Bishop. 



" Monumenta Pulveris Pyrii.'" Reproductions of ancient 

 pictures concerning the history of Gunpowder, with ex- 

 planatory notes by Oscar Guttmann. Printed for the Author, 

 1906. Presented by Oscar Guttraann, Esq. 



