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...Case librum (XLI paginae) exhibuit classi suae discipuli librum amaverunt. Vere, alii magistri hoc cognoverunt, et sex aliae scholae intendunt eo libro uti in classibus Latinis hoc autumno. Unus discipulus dixit: "Disciscopia verborum dum legis atque in fabulam intras. Fortasse ego ipse novos eventus de Daimone scribam. Tamennescio num quidquam praeterea sit quod Daimon facere debeat...
...Sylvester Marmaduke (celebrated Aleutian Islands poet) (Vancouver, 1943?)." Next to this, Gridley noticed, was a mimeographed supplement to the British Museum's Bulletin of Printed Books. It mentioned the acquisition of the unique volume published in 1455, Asellus Hinnibundus (Whinnying Ass). Asellus begins with the words: "In hoc libro non continentur quae expectares, candide lector" (You won't find what you expect in this book, shining reader) and ends: "Nuces tibi" (Nuts to you). The fake bulletin also states that "until further notice all Scottish books printed before 1750 will be issued only to Scottish readers...
Currently on exhibition in the Reading Room Hall of Widener Library are 130 modern Argentine books and periodicals, selected by R. Hayward Keniston '04 and Cyrus T. Brady, Jr. '05, representatives on cultural relations for the American Embassy, and Teodoro Becu, of the Camara Argentine del Libro...
Included in the collection is also a very interesting copy of the first edition (1564) of Ruy Lopez' "Libro del Juego del Axedrez" which was given the College by Buckingham Smith, 1836, who evidently found it at Saint Augustine, Florida, when he was there in the 1840's. There is also a copy of a treatise in Latin written by an Italian lawyer, Tomasso Azzio, and printed in 1583 and a rather amusing work published in Boston in 1805. This last work, the "Elements of Chess", was the second book on the subject published in America and reflects the revolutionary...