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partly from what appeared in the Freemason ancl the Times , and has most recently been published in the Bibliographer . The second portion of the catalogue ancl sale carries the alp habetical list from " Chardon" to " Germanns , " ancl has been issued by Puttick and Simpson , ancl contains 2506 lots . Whether it will reach the amount of the last remarkable sale is a moot

point on which there is a great divergence of opinion , though we are inclined to think that it will , for reasons which will be patent at the sale . This second catalogue contains " a mass of valuable books—manuscripts , eclitiones principes , and books printed on vellum in particular ; but there is no class of book that reaches the sni ^ assing interest of the Bibles and the Boccaccios in the first sale . " Among the more notable . we observe " among

, the manuscripts , ' Opuscula' of S . Chrysostom , S . Gregory of Antioch , and S . Gregory of Nazianzen , of the twelfth or thirteenth century ; a palimpsest Codex , containing an uncial MS . of the Gospels , of . the eighth century ; the works of S . Ephraem Syrns , probably of the thirteenth century : and two Greek Service books of the thirteenth ancl fourteenth centuries respectively . Among the editiones principes" ChrysostomCiceroClaudianClemens

Alexan-, , , , drinus , Quintus Curtius , Demosthenes , Dictys Cretensis , Dio Cassius , Diodorus Siculus , Dioscorides , Euclid , Euripides , and Aulus Gellius may be specially mentioned . Of books printed on vellum there are several of Cicero—viz ., the ' Rhetorica , ' printed by Jenson in 1470 , the Aldine ' Rhetorica , ' the Aldine ' De Oratore , ' the first volume of the Aldine ' Orationes , ' the ' Tusculanaa Quffistiones , ' by Jenson , 1472 , the first ancl second editions of the ' De Officiis , '

by Fust and Schoeffer , the ' De Officiis , ' by Peter Vidon , the ' Epistol ® ad . familiares' of John of Spira , 1469 ; the Lyons counterfeit of the Aldine edition of the same epistles ; the eclitio princeps of Aulus Gellius , 1469 , which is described as probably the most beautiful book in the sale , etc . " It will also be seen that the " various editions of Cicero form one of the chief features of the sale , and the description of them occupies over twentythree pages of the catalogue . " " France occupies fifty-six pages , and the items there described are noticed as follows in the preface : —

One of the most important features in this portion is certainly the extensive series of books and tracts relating to French affairs . These comprise upwards of 500 lots in the sale catalogue . They extend over a period of a hundred years—from 1563 to 1663—and consist of satires in prose and verse , accounts of battles , sieges , marriages , coronations , remarkable appearances in the heavens , earthquakes , pestilences , local occurrences , political ancl national events , including a large number relating to the religious controversies of the times , so rich in startling and important theological changes ; many of them were surreptitiously printed , and must be , from their ephemeral nature , either unique or of very great rarity . There is also a good number of classic French poetical books and tracts in original or rare editions .

" Another important heading is that of Chronicles—Latin , French , Spanish , Portuguese , and Limousin . Two of these are said to have been hitherto undescribed by bibliographers , viz ., ' Chronica del Rey Don Rodrigo , ' printed by Lazaro de Gayanis in 1499 , ancl ' Coronica del Noble Cavallero Guarino Mesquino , ' printed in Seville b y Juan Varela , March 15 th , 1527 . " Dante is well represented : the descriptions , which extend over five pages ,

commence with a very fine manuscri pt on paper of the first half of the fifteenth century . Of the editions printed in the fifteenth century we find those of Numeister , 1472 ; Francisco del Tuppo , 1475 (?) ; Vind . cle Spira , 1477 ( two copies ) ; L . & A . Pedemontanus , 1478 : ' Opus impressum arte et diligentia Magistri Philippi Veneti , ' 1478 ; Nicholo Lorenzo della Magna , 1481 ; 0 . Scot 1484 ; Boninus cle Boninus 1487 BBenali & Matthio di Parma 1491

, , ; . , . There is rather a larger proportion of English books in this portion than in the former one . We find four editions of Chaucer ; an illustrated copy of Clarendon ' s 'History of the Rebellion , ' containing 360 portraits , etc ., 180 of which are drawings in sepia ; the first edition of the same book with Duchess