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these issues, and completes the set of all known varieties of the 

 "first edition in the Library. The existence of three other 

 issues has been asserted, but cannot be verified. 



"List of the Officers and Men employed in the sledging 

 parties in search of the Erebus and Terror." Printed on linen. 

 " Advertisement. The Queen's illuminated Magazine and North 

 Cornwall Gazette. Published in Winter Quarters, Northumber- 

 land Sound, Arctic Regions." Two isheets, printed on board 

 H.M.S. Assistance during the expedition under the command of 

 Sir E. Belcher to search for Sir John Franklin. 



Among the foreign Incunabula and later works, the following 

 are of special interest : — 



Durandus, Gulielmus : " Rationale diuinorum officiorum." 

 Printed by Berthold Rodt, the first printer at Basel, about 1470. 



Thomas Aquinas : " De articulis fidei." Printed by XJlrich 

 Zell, about 1470. Presented by George Dunn, Esq. 



Bracciolini, Poggio : " Facetiae." Printed by Andreas Gallus, 

 Ferrara, 1471. 



" Ars Moriendi." Printed by Glinther Zainer, Augsburg, 

 about 1472. 



Hieronymus : " De Viris illustribus." Printed by Giinther 

 Zainer, Augsburg, about 1472. This and the preceding tract, 

 though also sold separately, were issued as part of the collection 

 which contained the first edition of the De Imitatione Christi. 



Duns, Joannes, Scotus : " Super quatuor libros Senten- 

 tiarum." Printed by Wendelin of Speier, Venice, 1472. 

 Presented by George Dunn, Esq. 



Aristotle : " De Anima " and " Metaphysica." The first two 

 books printed by Laurentius Canovius, the second printer at 

 Padua, in 1472 and 1473. 



Matheus Silvaticus : " Liber cibalis et medicalis Pandec- 

 tarum," Naples, 1474. Printed in the type used at Naples 

 during the year 1474 by Arnold of Brussels. 



Augustine, Saint : "De Contemplatione." Printed at 

 Strassburg by the printer of " Henricus Ariminensis/' about 

 1475. 



'•'Litaniae sine Rogationes Ambrosianae." Printed by the 

 " Presbiter Archangelus Ungardus," Milan, about 1475. This 

 press has been hitherto unrepresented in the British Museum. 

 The only other known copy of the work is in the Biblioteca 

 Ambrosiana, Milan. 



" Soliloquium Animse." Printed by Nicolaus Ketelaer and 

 Gerard de Leempt, Utrecht, about 1475. 



" Legenda Aurea." Printed by Anton Koberger, Nurem- 

 berg, 1482. 



Guillermus : " Postilla." Printed by the " Printer of 

 Jordanus de Quedlinburg," Strassburg, 1482 to 1483 ; probably 

 the first book from this press. Presented by George Dunn, Esq. 



