ne hundred francs
at the sale, five hundred and twenty-five pounds.

Luther's own copy of the first edition of his translation of the Bible
after his final revision. This volume, which is now in the British
Museum, contains his autograph, and also the autographs of Bugenhagen,
Melanchthon, and G. Major, two hundred and sixty-seven pounds.

The first and second editions of Cicero's _Officia_, printed by Fust and
Schoeffer at Mentz in 1465 and 1466, eighty-two pounds, ten shillings;
and fifty-nine pounds.

Cicero's _Epistolae ad Familiares_, printed by Joannes de Spira at Venice
in 1469, eighty pounds.

Petrarch's _Sonetti, Canzoni e Trionfi_, printed by Jenson at Venice in
1473; the only copy known on vellum, eighty pounds, seventeen shillings.

A presentation copy to Cardinal Sforza of the _Sforziada_, printed at
Milan in 1490; in the original velvet binding, with silver knops, one
hundred and sixty-eight pounds. The last two volumes are now preserved
in the Grenville Library in the British Museum.

_Poliphili Hypnerotomachia_, printed by Aldus at Venice in 1499,
eighty-two pounds, nineteen shillings.

_Missale Vallisumbrose_, printed by Lucantonio di Giunta at Venice in
1503, sixty-four pounds, one shilling.

All the above books are printed on vellum. The library also contained
several fine block-books: the first edition of the _Speculum Humanae
Salvationis_, the _Apocalypsis_, and the first edition of _Ars
Memorandi_, which sold respectively for eighty pounds; thirty-one
pounds, ten shillings; and twenty-six pounds, ten shillings. The
_Catholicon_ of Joannes Balbus de Janua, printed at Mentz in 1460, and
five Caxtons: the first edition of the _Dictes or Sayings of the
Philosophers, Fayts of Arms_, the second edition of the _Mirrour of the
World_, the _Recuyell of the Histories of Troye_, and the _Royal Book_,
were to be found in the collection. Thirty-six pounds, four shillings
and sixpence was obtained for the _Catholicon_, and three hundred and
thirty-nine pounds, thirteen shillings and sixpence for the Caxtons. Of
these the _Recuyell_ fetched the highest price--one hundred and
fifty-seven pounds, ten shillings. Some other notable books in this
marvellous library were the Dante, printed at Florence in 1481, which
realised forty pounds, nineteen shillings; the first edition of the
_Teseide_ of Boccaccio, which was disposed of for one hundred and sixty
pounds; a very fine copy of Smith's _Historie of Virginia