hree following days. One thousand four
hundred and nineteen lots = seven hundred and thirty-eight pounds,
eighteen shillings.

Large prices were obtained for many of the books, especially for the
early ones printed in Scotland.

The following are a few of the rarest of the volumes, together with the
amounts for which they were sold:--

A Roman Breviary on vellum, printed by N. Jenson at Venice in 1482, and
ornamented with borders to the pages, drawn by a pen, ninety-three
pounds; _Lo Doctrinal de Sapiensa_, in the Catalan dialect, by Guy de
Roye, printed about 1495, one hundred pounds; _Missale pro usu totius
Regni Norvegiae_ (Haffniae, 1519), with the arms and cypher of the King of
Denmark on the back of the binding, one hundred and thirty-two pounds;
_The Falle of Princis_, etc., by Boccaccio, translated by John Lydgate,
and printed by Pynson in 1527, seventy-eight pounds; _The Catechisme_ of
Archbishop Hamilton, printed at 'Sanct Androus' in 1552, one hundred and
forty-eight pounds; _Tractate concerning ye Office and Dewtie of
Kyngis_, etc., written by William Lauder, and printed by John Scott at
Edinburgh in 1556, seventy-seven pounds; _Confessione della Fede
Christiana_, by Theodore Beza, printed in 1560, containing the autograph
of Sir James Melville, and having MARIA R. SCOTOR[=V] stamped in gold on
each cover, one hundred and forty-nine pounds; _The Forme and Maner of
Examination before the Admission to ye Tabill of ye Lord, usit by ye
Ministerie of Edinburge_ (Edinburgh, 1581), seventy pounds; the first
edition of the author's corrected text of _Don Quixote_ (Madrid, 1608),
together with the first edition of the second part (Madrid, 1615), one
hundred and ninety-two pounds; dedication copy to King Charles II. of
the _Institutions of the Law of Scotland_, by Sir James Dalrymple of
Stair, afterwards Viscount Stair, two volumes (Edinburgh, 1681), in a
remarkably fine contemporary Scotch binding, with the royal arms in gold
on the covers, two hundred and ninety-five pounds; a first edition of
_Robinson Crusoe_, three volumes (London, 1719-20), thirty-one pounds;
one of the twelve copies, printed at a cost of upwards of ten thousand
pounds, of the _Botanical Tables_ of the Earl of Bute, nine volumes,
with the arms of the Earl impressed in gold on the bindings,
seventy-seven pounds; the first edition of Burns's _Poems_ (Kilmarnock,
1786), with lines in the autograph of Burns, and a letter from J.G.
Lockh