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

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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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    BALZAC, Honord de. La Peau de Chagrin, Roman philosophique, par M. de Balzac, [Cut.] (Sterne, Tristram Shandy, chap, cccxxii.) Paris, Charles Gosselin, Libraire, Rue Saint~Germain-des-Prds, 9; Urbain Canel, Libraire, Rue du Bac, n' 104. M DCCC XXXI. OCTAVO. The first edition, with two illustrations by Tony Johannot Bought in 1892. German Books. CLEMENT V. Begin. Incipiunt constituciones cle. pape .v. vnacum apparatu domini lo. an. Colophon. Presens de- mentis quinti opus constitutionum clarissimum. Alma in vrbe maguntina. indite nacionis germanice. quam dei dementia, tarn alti ingenij lumine. dono- que gratuito. ceteris terrarum nacionibus preferre. illustrareque dignatus est. Artificiosa quadam adinuentione imprimendi seu caracterizandi absque ulla calami exaracione sic effigiatum. et ad eusebiam dei. industrie est consummatum per Petrum schoiff- her de gernsshem. Anno dominice incarnacionis .M.cccc.lxvij. Octaua die mensis octobris. FOLIO. The second edition by Schoffer of the ‘ Clementines,’ complet- ing the Museum set of early Mainz editions of the book. Printed on vellum. The first leaf is in facsimile. Bought in 1891. GERMAN BIBLE. Begin. Hie vahet an das register iiber die bibeln des alten testaments. End. Ein ende hat das buch 8s