Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by Robert Robinson^ for Thomas Gubbin. Anno Domini. 1596. quarto. Dedicated ‘to the Right Honorable, vertuous and learned Lady, the Ladie Marie, Countesse of Penbroke.’ The Latin poem of ‘Amintas,’ by Thomas Watson, from which Fraunce translated, is itself adapted from Tasso. This English version is one of the less unsuccessful essays in English hexameters. Unique. From the Isham collection. Bought in 1894. SABIE, Francis. Adams Complaint. The Olde Worldes Tragedie. Dauid and Bathsheba. A loue Musa. [Device.] Imprinted at London by Richard lohnes, at the Rose and Crowne next aboue Saint Andrewes Church in Holborne. 1596. quarto. Dedicated, as to a ‘ learned Mecaenas,’ to the ‘ Right Reuerend Father, Richard [Howland], by the Prouidence of God, Bishop of Peterborough.’ Only one other copy known. Bought in 1894. The three books by Sabie bought in this year, with the three already in the Library, make the Museum set of his works nearly complete. RALEIGH, Sir Walter. The Discouerie of the large rich and bewtiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado) And the prouinces of Emeria, Arro- maia, Amapaia, and other countries, with their riuers, adioyning. Performed in the yeare 1595. by Sir W. Ralegh Knight, Captaine of her Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden of the Stanneries, and her Highnesse Lieutenant generall of. the Countie of Cornewall. Imprinted at London by Robert Robinson. quarto. Dedicated ‘ to the right honorable my singular good Lord and kinsman, Charles Howard, knight of the Garter, Barron and Counceller, and of the Admiralls of England the most re- nowmed : And to the Right Honorable Sr. Robert Cecyll Knight,