University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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prayer-book, dated 1863, which was taken from a captured block- ade runner. As a Final view of the rarest books in the collection we give below the titles of the following vfzzcznznbula, or books printed before 1500. Leonardo of Udine. Sermones aurei de Sanctis, 14733 Anaba- rano, P. d.' Incipit repeticio cfapitulij Postulasti de foro compe- ftentij, I474g Regimen sanitatis, I482Q Varaggio, G. da. Sanc- torum ac fastorum liber, 1483 g Glanvil, B. Liber de proprietatibus rerum, 1485g Simonetta, G. Rerurn gestarum F. Sphortize, 14863 Le Fevre, R. Le recueil des histoires troiennes, I4Q-Q Scbedei, H. Liber cronicarurn fbetter known as the Nuremberg Chroniclej, 14935 Suetonius Tranquiilus, C. De vita Cxsarum, I4Q4Q Colonne, G. dalle. Historia Troiana, 1494?g Ximenes, F. Libre deles dones, 1495 3 Gaguin, R. De origine et gestis Francorurn, 1497g Hiero- nym us, St. Das ist sant Pauls leben des ersten eynsidels, I4Q8. 2 T fm? 20

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included in the preceding summary. Among such must be included the 1518 edition of Champier's Rosa Gallica, the exist- ence of which was doubted by Allutg a fine copy of the original edition of the King james translation of the Bible, 1611, and a Low-Saxon version of Luther's Bible, printed at Magdeburg in 1545. Among rare specimens of early Eng- lish books may be mentioned two beautiful reprints: Cax- ton's Game of the Chesse, and The Book of Hawking by Juliana Berners, originally printed by Wyiilcyn de W'ordeg The Apo- logye of Sir Thomas More, I533jTy1'1C.l2LlCiS Supper of the Lorde, 1533, Uvicklieffes Wicket, 1548, for reading which 501 persons were condemned to be burnt, Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence, 1562, Phaer and Twyne's Translation of Virgil, 1596g A Rela, tion of a journey, by George Sandys, 1615 5 Godwin's Christ Set forth, I642, Roger VVilliams's Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644, and George Fox's Battle-Door for Teachers to Learn Sin- gular and Plural, 1660. Out of many old and curious German works may be specified Brunschwygk's Liber de Arte Distil- landi, ISOOQ St. Bridget's Das Buch der himlischen Offenbarung, 1502, and two editions of Tauler's Sermons, 1508 and 1523. In French, perhaps the most notable work is Taverniei-'s Les Six Voyages, 1679-92. In Italian, prominent among many rare and valuable works stands IVIanzoni's I Promessi Sposi, the Milan edition of 1825-6, which was suppressed by the author and was for a long time unknown to Italian bibliographers. The library possesses also the rare original edition of AlHeri's Misogallo, pub- lished in London in 1799, and not included in the Florence edi- tion of his works in 1804. Among the most valuable works in the collection is the Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, by Fran- cisco Alvarez, translated from Portugese into- Spanish, and pub- lished at Antwerp in 1557. A similar copy has been sold in Lon- don for 75120. In concluding this paragraph, we may asso- ciate two works widely separated in time and charater, Robert Flud's Utriusque cosmi historia, I6I7fIQ,-31'1Cl a Confederate I9

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