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...first Greek version of the new Testament, is perhaps the most valuable. The "Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Palimpset discov red by Cardinal Mai, under a version of St. Augustine's "Commentary on the Psalms," is considered the oldest Latin manuscript extant. The large "Hebrew Bible," in folio, from the library of the duke of Urbino, is interesting from its historical associations, the Jews of Venice having offered for it its weight in gold...
...said that Herbert Spencer's great work on Descriptive Sociology has been at last completed. The eight parts are in folio form, for convenience, and it aims to epitomize the past and present social life of the globe...
...recent sale of the Cooke Library in New York, Halliwell's folio edition of Shakespeare, of 1853, was bought by Yale College for $300 and a gallery of Shaksperean engravings...
...Beresford Hope has just sold a part of his celebrated collection of books, and for some of them obtained excellent prices. Among the choice things in the sale were the first four folio editions of Shakespeare, the fourth edition being in fine condition, but the others had had their titles mended, and were otherwise not so perfect as a collector would be glad to see them. For the first, $1,190 was paid; for the second, $177; for the third, $363; for the fourth, $120. Cardinal Ximenez's Polyglot Bible, in six volumes, fetched $830; Cicero's Letters, first edition...
...professor then kindly showed the reporter a large folio volume, which contained the introduction to the Chinese language. The professor said that he had left the other nineteen volumes in Ning-Po, as he did not expect that any "Melican boy would fixee intluduction in tlee years." He then subscribed to numerous copies of the Crimson, including one for the Emperor. He assured the reporter that Memorial Hall would be too expensive for himself and family; and furthermore, he was afraid that the food would be too rich...