ry low. There were
three Caxtons in the first sale--_Tully of Old Age_, _Curia Sapientiae_,
and the _Order of Chivalry_, which fetched respectively one pound five
shillings, six shillings, and eleven shillings. The prints and drawings
fared even worse than the printed books. One hundred and three prints by
Albert Duerer, in two lots, sold for one pound, ten shillings and
sixpence, and a large collection of woodcuts by the same artist for half
a crown. Twenty-four etchings by Rembrandt, in four lots, realised but
three pounds, five shillings; while eleven shillings and sixpence was
all that could be got for thirty-four heads and thirty-five views by
Hollar.

The collection of manuscripts which Dr. Rawlinson bequeathed to the
University of Oxford is a magnificent one, and Mr. Macray gives a long
and very interesting account of it in his _Annals of the Bodleian
Library_. It contains some fine Biblical manuscripts, and about one
hundred and thirty Missals, Horae, and other Service-books, many of them
from the library of the celebrated collector Nicolas Joseph Foucault. It
is rich in early copies of the classics, and there are upwards of two
hundred volumes of poetry, including the works of Chaucer, Hoccleve,
Lydgate, etc. English history is remarkably well represented. Among the
manuscripts of this division of the collection are the _Thurloe State
Papers_ in sixty-seven volumes, which were published by Dr. Birch in
1742, and the _Miscellaneous Papers_ of Samuel Pepys in twenty-five
volumes. The Pepys papers, among other very interesting matter,
comprise many curious dockyard account-books of the reigns of King Henry
VIII. and Queen Elizabeth. This division also contains some important
letters of King Charles II., King James II., and the Duke of Monmouth,
together with an acknowledgment by Monmouth that Charles II. had
declared that he was never married to Lucy Walters, the Duke's mother.
This was written and signed by him on the day of his execution, and
witnessed by Bishops Turner and Ken, and also by Tenison and Hooper. As
might be expected, the number of works relating to topography, heraldry
and genealogy is very large. The collection also comprises many Irish
manuscripts, a considerable number of Italian papers bearing on English
history, and the valuable collections made by Rawlinson for a
continuation of Wood's _Athenae Oxonienses_, and for a History of Eton
College. There are one hundred volumes of letters, two hund