THE MUSEUM. 
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will be a surprise to collectors. The sale will take 
place in New York, on June 29th and following days. 
Collectors may obtain catalogues by addressing Mr. 
W. Elliot Woodward, Roxbury, Mass. 
FABULOUS PRICES FOR OLD BOOKS. 
One of the rarest books to be found in collections 
is the Mazarin Bible, sometimes called the Mentz 
.Latin Bible, printed about the year 1455. Two 
copies have been sold in past years for $2500, but 
at the Syston Park Library sale, in December last, 
Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, in London, 
disposed of a copy of this rare edition for £3900, or 
about $19,000. 
At a recent sale in the same city, a copy of the 
“ Psalmarum Codex,” printed in 1459, brought 
£4950, or more than $24,000. 
EXCHANGES AND REVIEWS. 
Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North 
America , noticed in our last issue, is one of Dr. 
Charles Rau’s best works, and is characterized by 
his usual painstaking care and accuracy, evincing, 
as it does, an immense amount of study and research. 
It is divided into two parts: First, Europe, which 
is subdivided into the Palaeolithic , the Neolithic 
and the Bronze Ages. The object of the work is to 
collect together all known data pertaining in any 
way to the manner of fishing by prehistoric man. 
All classes of implements, carvings, mouldings, 
pictographs, weavings and other objects which in 
any manner bear upon the subject are described, 
and in most cases, figured, such as fish-hooks, 
harpoon-heads, reindeer-horns and bones with etch¬ 
ings of fish, fishing nets, stone sinkers, stone anchors, 
boats, etc., from the ancient caverns of France, the 
pile dwellings of the Swiss Lakes and from all 
other early remains in Europe. 
The second part is de¬ 
voted to America. Stone 
fish-hooks are described 
from Greenland, shell- 
hooks from the California 
coast, fish-hooks of cactus 
spine from Arizona, nearly 
all the forms of fishing 
implements and parapher- 
Fig. i. 
nalia which occur in 
Europe being repre¬ 
sented. We find in North 
America representations 
of fish in the pipe sculp¬ 
tures of the mounds, fish 
knives or cutters from the 
Eastern States, and carv¬ 
ings of fish in shell and 
stone. In Mexico the 
picture writings contain 
fishing scenes. 
Fig. 2. 
An appendix con¬ 
tains notices of fishing 
implements and fish 
representations discov¬ 
ered south of Mexico, 
such as stone carvings 
from Costa Rica, 
golden ornaments from 
Chiriqui, ceramic and 
textile representations 
from Peru. Through 
the courtesy of Prof. 
S. F. Baird, of the 
Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion we are enabled to 
reproduce some of the 
illustrations which 
appear in this work. 
Fig. 1 is a reduced 
engraving of a Peru¬ 
vian vessel in the 
National Museum, 
showing fish figures in relief. 
It is of black ware, with a 
handle moulded in the shape 
of a monkey. Figs. 2, 3 and 
4 represent three thin silver 
dress ornaments of fish form, 
found on one of the Chincha 
Islands of Peru, thirty-two 
feet below the surface. The 
original specimens are now 
in the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York. 
The author acknowledges 
his indebtedness to Messrs. 
Harper and Brothers, of 
