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in 1527 01- 1528. Printed at Southvvark, by Peter Trevlris, in 1529, shortly before 

 Wolsey's fall. The work consists of the Cardinal's Latin jjreface, and directions as to 

 the organisation of the school, followed by Dean Colet's " Introduction of the parts 

 of speaking for children and young beginners in the Latin Speech," and by William 

 Lily's Latin Syntax. The edition is ot extreme rarity, and is unnoticed by Lowndes 

 and other bibliographers. 



A very rare work by Henry Parrot, a writer of (he early part of the seventeenth 

 century, contemporary with Shakespeare, entitled: "Epigrams by H. P., Mortui non 

 mordent. Imprinted at London by K. B., and are to be soulde by John Helme at his 

 shoppe in S. Dunstan's churchyarde, 1608." Henry Parrot was famous in his time as a 

 writer of epigrams, " many of which," according to Warton, " are worthy to be revived in 

 modern collections." 



An important Chinese work in 28 volumes, entitled : " Kin ting kwang yu se yih tu 

 che," or. Imperially compiled illustrated History of the Western Possessions of the 

 Empire. This work was composed under order from the Emperor K'een lung, by an 

 Imperial Commission, and consists of a detailed account of the geography, history and 

 political condition of the whole of Central Asia from the Great Wall to Western 

 Turkestan. 



A remarkable collection of Voyages and Travels In the Swedish language, printed in 

 1674, at the private jn'ess established by Count P. Brahe, at Wisingsborg, on the Wettern 

 Lake, in Sweden. About 28 books were printed at this press, and, from the small 

 number of copies struck off, these have always been extremely scarce. This volume is, 

 perhaps, the rarest and least known of the celebrated collections of voyages. 



At the sale of the Sunderland Library, 81 books, wanting in the Museum, were pur- 

 chased, many of them rare and important. Among these may be particularized : — An 

 edition of ^sop, printed by Pynson in 1 502, bound up with a Theodulus from the same 

 press, and an Alanus, printed by Quentell, of Cologne, in the same year. Antoninus : 

 " Confessionale vulgare intitulato Specchio di Consclentia," 1479. Arlosto: "Orlando 

 Furioso," the very rare edition of Venice, 1542. Boccaccio : " II Philocolo," Milan, 

 1478, and the original edition of the " Nimphale," Venice, 1477. Bouchard :" Les 

 Croniques Annales des Pays Dangleterre et Bretaigne," Paris, 1531. Bouchard's "Fajminei 

 sexus apologia," 1522, printed on vellum. A rare edition of the Decretals of Pope 

 Boniface, Rome, 1472. Cesar's Commentai'ies ; Milan, P. de Lavagnia, 1478. Cham- 

 pier: "Les Grans Chroniques des gestes et vertueux faictz des Ducz et Princes des pays 

 de Savoye et Piemot;" Paris, J. de la Garde, 1516, and an early book upon Canada: 

 " Estat present de I'Eglise et de la Colonic Fran^aise dans la Nouvelle France, par Jean, 

 Eveque de Quebec;" Paris, 1688. 



A collection of early German Bibles, comprising several articles of interest ; amongst 

 these may be cited, 1st, a very rare German Bible in 2 volumes, folio, illustrated with 

 woodcuts, which was published in Strasburg in 1485. It was formerly supposed that 

 Luther's was the first published translation of the Bible into German, but there were in 

 fact no less than thirteen large folio editions of the Bible in German, of various transla- 

 tions, published between 1460 and 1518. The one above mentioned is the 10th edition. 

 2nd. A copy of Luther's Pentateuch, printed at Wittenberg in 1523. This edition, 

 which is extremely rare, was used by our own Tyndale in making; his English translation 

 of the Pentateuch. 3rd. An independent translation of the Pi'ophets, believed to have 

 been executed by Haetzer, of Bavaria; Augsburg, 1527, folio. 4th. A Roman Catholic 

 Testament by Emser and Dietenberger, printed at Tubingen in 1532, In folio. 



Several English books of Interest, relating to Pope, Swift, Dr. Johnson, etc., were 

 acquired at the sale of Col. F. Grant ; amongst them was a copy of Pope's " Epistles to 

 several persons," usually called, " The Ethic Epistles," in which the character of Atossa 

 (the Duchess of Marlborough) first appears, and for the suppression of which, It is stated 

 that Pope received the sum of 1,000 /. Also the first edition of Swift's " Directions to 

 Servants;" and a French translation of Dr. Johnson's " Rasselas," by Madame Belot, 

 published at Amsterdam in 1760. It Is curious that the ti-anslator compares "Rasselas" 

 with the "Candlde" of Voltaire, at the same time acquitting Dr. Johnson of literary 

 larceny in the design of his work. " Paradise Lost : A poem by John Milton, translated 

 Into the Manks language, by the Rev. Mr. Thomas Christian, of Ballakllleyj 

 kk. Marown;" Douglas [1796]. 



Numerous and important additions have been made to the Music Collection, including 

 a large number of works, chiefly theoretical, from the library of the late Dr. Miiller, of 

 Berlin. Among these may be specified the " Heptachordum Danicum" of .1. M. Corvi- 

 nus ; the " Belligerasmus" of E. Sartorius ; a collection of Guitar Music, by J. B. Fasolo, 

 and another entitled : " Vezzosotti Fiori," by various composers ; the fourth book of 

 Frescobaldl's "Canzone alia francese" ; S. Molinaro's " Intavolatura di LIuto," and 

 three books of " Vlllanelle," by P. Sabbatlnl ; all of these works, excepting the first two, 

 being quite unknown to bibliographers. 



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