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Enough orders have come in for the Edition de Luxe on Imperial Japanese vellum with parchment covers so that this edition will be published. Any other student who may desire this extra edition must send in his order before June...
...days in the Art Room of the Library a Latin address presented by over seventy American scholars to Professor Heinrich Brunn, the archaeologist, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. The address, which was drawn up by Professor Lane, is engrossed and illustrated on parchment in an alphabet of the time of the Emperor Claudius. The subscribers will also send a gold medal, with appropriate devices and inscriptions...
There is a valuable collection of manuscripts in Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac, written on parchment and rolled in the characteristic way of the Hebrews. Among the manuscripts are passages from the prophets, Pentateuch, the Shofar, which is used even now in the Jewish services, and the Book of Ruth...
...catalogue of the York Gate library (London, Eng.), of books relating to geography, commerce and colonization. It is a quarto volume of 936 pages, printed on handmade paper with large margins, and illustrated with facsimiles of the title pages of rare volumes. The book is handsomely bound in full parchment...
...Minnesota Historical Society has just been presented by the Hon. L. D. Gilfillan with an ancient work on Geography, in three volumes. The books, which are printed in Latin and bound in parchment, are entitled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlus Novus." It was printed in 1645 at Amsterdam, and bears the name of a famous geographer of that time, Joannes Bloev, as author. The "Atlas Hovus is full of maps, all beautifully colored by hand and frequently surrounded by emblematic devices, together with scenes in the country represented. The unknown regions of the world are populated by horrid monsters creatures...