than it brought. It bears no kind of comparison with the
copy in Lord Spencer's, Dr. Hunter's, and the Cracherode,
collections. These latter are _giants_ to it!

2813. Id. cum notis Harduini; 1723, 3 vols., ON VELLUM 42 0 0

3345. Tewrdranckhs; Poema Germanica, Norimb. fol., 1517, ON
VELLUM. 21 0 0

This is a book of uncommon rarity. It is a poetical
composition on the life and actions of the Emperor
Maximilian I., and was frequently reprinted; but not with
the same care as were the earlier editions of 1517 and
1519--the latter, at Augsburg, by John Schouspergus.
Koellerus, who purchased a copy of this work on vellum,
for 200 crowns, has given a particularly tempting
description of it. See Schelhorn's "_Amoenitates Literarae
[Transcriber's Note: Literariae]_," tom. ii., 430-iii., 144.
Dr. Hunter purchased Dr. Askew's copy, which I have seen in
the Museum of the former: the wood-cuts, 118 in number,
justify every thing said in commendation of them by Papillon
and Heinecken. Probably Dr. Askew purchased the above copy
of Osborne; for I find one in the _Bibl. Harleian_, vol.
iii., no. 3240. See, too, _Bibl. Mead_, p. 239, no.
43; where a VELLUM copy, of the edition of 1527, was sold
for 9_l._ 9_s._ My friend, Mr. Douce, has also beautiful
copies of the editions of 1517 and 1519, upon paper of the
finest lustre. It has been a moot point with bibliographers
whether the extraordinary type of this book be _wood_, and
cut in solid blocks, or moveable types of _metal_. No one is
better able to set this point "at rest," as lawyers call it,
than the gentleman whose name is here last mentioned.

3337. Terentianus Maurus de Literis, Syllabis, et Metris
Horatii. _Mediol._ fol., 1497 12 12 0

"This is judged to be the only copy of this edition in
England, if not in the whole world. Dr. Askew could find no
copy in his travels over Europe, though he made earnest and
particular search in every library which he had an
opportunity of consulting." Note in the catalogue. It was
purchased by Dr. Hunter, and is now in his Museum.
Originally it belonged to Dr. Taylor, the editor of Lysias
and Demosthenes, who originally procured it from the
Harleian Library, for _four_ guineas only. We are told that,
during his life, _one hundred_ guineas