h
after the termination of the auction. The _fifth_, that the
sale is to begin "punctually at 9 o'clock in the morning,
and two in the afternoon; and this to continue daily until
all the books be sold; wherefore it is desired that the
gentlemen, or those deputed by them, may be there precisely
at the hours appointed, lest they should miss the
opportunity of buying those books which either themselves or
their friends desire." As this is the earliest auction
catalogue which I have chanced to meet with, the _present_
reader may probably be pleased with the following specimens,
selected almost at random of the prices which were given for
books at a public sale, in the year 1676.

_In Folio._ PHILOLOGISTS.

_s._ _d._

Pet. Heylyn's Cosmographie, Lond. 1652. 14 0
Io. Stow's Annals, or Chronicles of England,
&c. ibid., 1631. 15 0
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxon, 1638. 6 0
Geo. Withers, his Emblems; illustrated with brass
figures, 1635. 8 6
Os. Gabelhower's book called the Dutch Physic,
Dort, 1579. 3 0

p. 12.

_In Quarto._ PHILOLOGIE.

The Royal Passage of her Majesty, from the }
tower to Whitehall, Lond., 1604. }
The Vision of the Goddesses, a mask by the }
Queen and her Ladies, 1604. }
King James his Entertainment through the city }
of London, ibid. }
A particular Entertainment of the Queen and }
Prince, 1608. }
The magnificent Entertainment of King James, }
Queen Anne, and Prince Henry Frederick, 1604. }
Her Majesties speech to both Houses of }
Parliament, 1604. } _s._ _d._
Vox Coeli, or News from Heaven, 1624. } 5 0
An experimental Discovery of the Spanish }
Practises, 1623. }
Tho. Scotts aphorisms of State, or secret }
articles for the re-edifying the Romish }
Church, 1624. }
The Tongue Combat between two English }
Souldiers, 1