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containing music printed in Spain. Forty-three copies of 

 this work were printed on vellum ; the present copy is the 

 only one of these known ta be still in existence. 



The ballad, with musical notes, printed by John Rastell 

 about 1520, described ^bove. 



Two musical works ; the alto part of a collection of 

 " Laudi," entitled " II deuoto pianto della Gloriosa Vergine," 

 and the alto part of Verovio's " Canzonette spirituali," 

 engraved by Simone Verovio. inventor of the process of 

 engraving music on copper-plates, at Rome, 1591-1592. 



Dowland, John : " First book of Songs." Printed by 

 Humfrey Lownes, London, 1613. 



" Premier — second — livre de Sonates composeez par Mons. 

 [Henry] Eccles, Anglois." Paris, 1720-1723. 



Maps. — The most important additions to the collection 

 of Maps during the year 1904 have been : — 



Jode, Gerard de : " Speculum geographicum totius Ger- 

 maniae Imperium repraesentans." Antwerp, 1573. One of 

 the earliest Atlases of Central Europe. 



''Description de la Mer Mediterranee, par Guillaume 

 Bernard, Pilote," 1599. 



" Le Theatre de Guerre en Allemagne," 175G-1759. Augs- 

 burg, 1760. Fifty-one maps of the campaigns and battles in 

 Europe during the first four years of the Seven Years' War, 

 and five maps of America and the West Indies, including a 

 plan of Quebec, showing the positions of the English and 

 French armies on the 13th September 1759. 



A map of the Philippine Islands, 1727, in six finely 

 engraved sheets. 



A collection of Railway Maps from the library of the 

 late Robert Stephenson, including maps of the Grand Junc- 

 tion Railway, 1836 ; the Manchester, Birmingham and North 

 Stafi'ord Junction Railway, 1842-1845 ; the Warwickshire 

 and London Railway and the Buckingham Railway, 1846, 

 and the Great Eastern Railway, 1847. 



G. K. Fortcscue. 



