12 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



95 different sets, have been presented ; and 14 volumes and 19,110 single numbers 

 of foreign and colonial newspapers, belonging to 72 different sets, have been pur- 

 chased. 



(d.) 2,659 pieces of Music have been acquired by copyright, each piece complete in 

 itself. Of these 2,631 were received by English, and 28 by international copyright. 



(e.) The number of distinct works comprised in the 32,501 volumes and pamphlets, 

 and 55,440 parts of volumes ali'eady mentioned, amounts, as nearly as can be 

 ascertained, to 29,958. Of these, 3,768 were presented, 12,090 acquired by English, 

 and G-2 by international copyright, 176 by international exchange, and 13,862 by 

 purchase. 



(/.) 3,989 articles have been received in the Department, not included in the fore- 

 o-oing paragraphs, and comprising Broadsides, Parliamentary Papers, and other 

 miscellaneous items. The addition of this number to those already given produces a 

 total of 97,152 articles received in the Department. 



VII. Acqtdsitions of Special Interest. — Many of the most important acquisitions of 

 the past year have been made at the sale of the second portion of the Earl of Craw- 

 ford's library, on June 19-22 ; and at that of the library of the late Commissionsrath 

 Heinrich Klemm, which took place at Dresden on March 18 and following days. 



At Lord Crawford's sale were obtained five extremely rare and valuable early 

 romances, as follows : — 



1. The only known copy of Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Lyons, 1506. 



2. The metrical romance of Richard Coeur du Lyon, printed by Wynkyn de 

 Worde in 1528, of which only four other copies are known. 



3. Valentine and Orson, printed by William Copland ' ouer agaynst S. 

 Margaretes Churche in Lothbeiy," of which edition only one other copy is 

 known. 



4. The Treasurie of Amadis of Fraunce, translated out of Frenche ; Henry 

 Bynneman, 1567 ; only two other copies of which are known. 



5. Le Premier Livre de Palmerin d'Olive, Paris, 1546. 



Several other highly important acquisitions were made on this occasion, including: 

 One of the only two known copies of the editio princeps of Boethius"De Gonsolatione 

 Philosophi?e," which is also one of the only three books printed by Hans Glim, an 

 apprentice of Sweynheym and Pannartz ; The first dated edition of Martial, Ferrara, 

 1471 ; The only known copy of the original Latin edition of Niccolo Conti's travels, 

 1492; " Psalmes or Prayers," taken out of Holy Scripture, commonly called " the 

 Kynges Psalmes," T. Berthelet, about 1553, undescribed, and remarkable as a 

 Protestant prayer book printed in the reign of Queen Mary ; " A Prayer for the 

 Speaker of the Commons House of Parliament " in the reign of James I., and 

 subsequent to the Gunpowder Plot. 



At the Klemm sale were purchased, with other interesting books : A very fine copy 

 of the rare edition of Dionysius Areopagita, De divinis hymnis, printed at Bruges 

 by Colard Mansion, the associate of Caxton, about 1480 ; A block impression of one 

 leaf of a Donatus containing 28 lines, probably executed about 1475, and differing but 

 slightly from the unique Donatus in the library of the Athenaeum of Deventer ; 

 The Latin version of Aristotle's Ethics pi-inted at Louvain in 1476 by Conradus 

 Braem, one of the only seven books executed by this printer, and of which only four 

 copies are known; Laurentius, " Summe le Roy, of des Coninks Summe en leere," 

 Hasselt, 1481 ; The third and rarest part of Luther's Bible, Wittenberg, 1524, bound 

 in wooden boards from the piles of Trajan's bridge at Mentz, still in perfect preser- 

 vation ; The rare Bohemian Psalter printed by Baron von Zieiotin for the Moravian 

 Brethren, at his private press, Kralitz, 1579. 



Among acquisitions of special importance made on other occasions may be 

 named : — 



The second edition of Eliot's translation of the Bible into the language of the 

 Massachusetts Indians, Cambridge, Mass., 168.5-80; the second Bible printed in 

 America, and of equal rarity with the first edition, previously in the Museum. 



"The newe Testament," printed at Worcester by John Oswen, 1550. 



One of the only two known copies of the edition of the Indulgence of Pope 

 Innocent VIIL, " pro tuicione orthodoxte fidei contra Turchos," which was printed by 

 P. Schoeffer at Mentz in 1489, and is described in Hessels's " Gutenberg," p. 166. 

 Remarkable for containing an initial M. identical with that employed in the 30 line 

 Indulgences printed at Mentz in 1454 and 1455. 



One of the only three extant copies of the " Schaakspel," a Dutch translation of 

 the "Ludus Scaccorum" of Jacobus de Cessolis, printed at Delft by JacobJacobsz van 

 den Meer in 1483, with curious woodcuts representing the different pieces. 



" Claribalte," Valencia, 1519. A Spanish romance of chivalry, by Gonzalo 

 Fernandez de Oviedo, unknown to Antonio and Salva. 



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