460, three hundred and ten pounds;
_Cicero de Officiis_, printed at Mentz in 1466, seventy-one pounds;
_Tullius de Senectute et Amicitia_, printed by Caxton in 1481, two
hundred and fifty pounds; (a perfect copy of Caxton's _Mirrour of the
World_ was sold in the 1803 sale for thirty-eight pounds, seventeen
shillings); the first edition of Homer, printed at Florence in 1488,
two hundred pounds; _Poliphili Hypnerotomachia_, printed by Aldus in
1499, fifty-three pounds; the Aldine Virgil of 1501, one hundred and
forty-five pounds; _Roman de Guy de Warwick_, Paris, 1525, one hundred
and thirty pounds; the _New Actes and Constitucionis of Parliament maid
by James V., Kyng of Scottis_, printed on vellum at Edinburgh in 1541,
one hundred and fifty-one pounds; the _Contes_ of La Fontaine, Amsterdam
(Paris), 1762, in two small 8vo volumes, bound in red morocco,
ninety-three pounds; Moliere's Works, with plates by Moreau, six
volumes, 1773, seventy-seven pounds.

Among the books with historical or fine bindings were Alcyonius,
_Medices Legatus de Exsilio_, in aedib. Aldi, Venetiis, 1522, bound for
Francis I., with the arms of France, the crowned initial of the king,
and the salamander stamped on the covers, fifty-eight pounds; Aristotle,
_De Arte Poetica_, Florentiae, 1548, bound for Henry II. of France and
Diana of Poitiers, with the devices of the king and his mistress on the
covers, two hundred and five pounds; Crinitus, _De Poetis Latinis_,
Florentiae, 1505, bound for Grolier, seventy-four pounds; _Irenici
Germania_, Hagenoae, 1518, also bound for Grolier, sixty-two pounds; and
two works by Giordano Bruno--_Spaccio de la Bestia Trionfante_, Parigi,
1584, and _La Cena de la Ceneri_, 1584; the former bound in citron
morocco, with a red double by Boyet, and the latter in a beautiful
mosaic binding by Monnier, realised respectively the large sums of three
hundred and sixty pounds and three hundred and sixty-five pounds.

The principal manuscripts were a copy of Dante, with a commentary by
Joannes de Sarravalle, written in the years 1416-17, which sold for one
hundred and fifty-one pounds; and a very beautiful Roman Breviary of the
beginning of the sixteenth century, on vellum, illuminated for Francois
de Castelnau, Archbishop of Narbonne, for which five hundred and fifteen
pounds was obtained.

FRANCIS HARGRAVE, 1741?-1821

Francis Hargrave, the eminent law writer, who was born about 1741, was
the son of Christopher H