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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    par nouuelles gens de puis naguieres et Imrimees [sic] a Paris. Par anthoyne verard libraire demou- rant a paris sur le pont notre dame a lymaige saint iehan leuangeliste ou au palais au premier pillier deuant la chappelle ou on chante la messe de mes- seigneurs les presidens. folio. Printed about 1497-98. With numerous small woodcuts, many from blocks in very bad condition. This copy, which formerly belonged to one Vincenzo Rivalta, and wants the first leaf, was bought in 1894. is the only early edition of the book in the Museum. CHEMIN DE L’HOPITAL. Begin. Le chemin de lospital. Et ceulx qui en sont possesseurs et heritiers. Colophon. Cy fine le chemin le [sic] lospital Imprime a Lyon par Claude nourry Lan .M.ccccc. et cinq. quarto. A tract of four leaves, containing a list of such persons as may be expected to come to the poorhouse at last. From the Yemeniz collection and the Seilli^re Library. Bought in 1896. GEORGES D’ESCLAVONIE. Le chasteau de virginite. Colophon. Cy finist le chaste'au de virginite. Imprime a Paris par Iehan trepperel libraire demourant a la rue neufue nostre dame a lenseigne de lescu de france. Le dixiesme iour de luing. Lan mil cinq cens et six. QUARTO. On the titlepage is a woodcut of Our Lady and the Child Jesus seated in a tent and adored by angels ; and the last page is occupied by Trepperel’s device. Bought in 1893. MARTINEZ SILICEUS, Joannes. Ars Arithmetica loannis Martini Silicei: in Theo- ricen & Praxim scissa: omni hominum conditioni perquam vtilis & necessaria. Venales habentur