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A Fine Collection

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Day
27
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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An extraordinary collection of books, the library of Mr. Gennadius, late 3reek minister to England, is about to be brought under the hammer in Lonlon. It consists of the first and rarest sditions of the Greek classics In unisually good copies, Aldines, Juntas, ètephanuses. Of Homer there are 130 jopies, of Anacreon 40, of Longus, 60, jf Theocritus 50, and so on. Among the books are Racine's "Plutarch," Henri Estienne's "Aldine Thucydides," Vlelanchthon's editio princepsof Demosthenes. all with manuscript notes of their possessors. Besides these there ire 154 lots of Byroniana, including the original manuscript of "English

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