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j Quaint Gems of the Printer's Art From Britwell Court Library s d the inlf \P. ho) jot salo Inst month tho raro books THE (ho Britwell Court library remarkable many respects. t!)o first pjaco now high record prices 'and demonstrated that collectors wcro willing pay unthought sums for choice specimens. Moro (han half mil Hon dollars bid for 108 volumes which when exposed' for salo tho rooms Sotheby's London occupied tho spneo only few shelves. also emphasized the determination American collectors far compe- tition with European bibliophiles ro and quaint examples printer's nrt. For Smith, tho American buyer, acting for Henry Huntington and other booklovers this country, purchased tho greater part the volumes sold. The total amount real- ized this afternoon's sale was $550,-00- 0, which bid $425,000. Yet when \C Mr. Smith packed trophies tho auction room, comprising the finest apples English literature, able put them small steamer trunk. Struggled for Prizes. has been told cable despatches The Sun, Mr. Smith did not secure his prizes without struggle. The famous Quaritch mado desperate flght against invader, and only yielded Ono tho Capell collection Trinity massed battalions American dollars College, Cambridge, and trille imper- - which New York throw into the battle. tho contest waged for the gem tho collection, the only known copy the fourth edition Shakespeare's VinuS and Adonis, other known copies earlier editions, only six number, being national libraries stato collec- tions and therefore never likely appe.tr tho market, the bids mounted by thou- sands. Quaritch only acknowledged de- feat when Smith bid $75,500. This little book, bound tattered vel- lum, but inches by 3ft inched size, contains between centuries old covers not only the Venus but also Shakespeare's Passionate Pilgrim and Sonnets, printed 1559, which only two other copies known, and Davies and Marlowo's Epigrammes and Elegies, printed 1608. This raro examplo was bought for Mr. Huntington and paid what said the bighesf price ever bid auction for book, printed MS. The Venus printed 1599 Lon- don \for William Lcake, dwelling Paule's Churchyard the eigne the Greyhound.\ bears typographical ornament containing tho English royal arms. Tho rarest early Shakespeare editions the matchless Venui, first edi- tion, Bodleian Library, which oneo the first Shakespearian publication and onh existence. printed by Shakespeare's fellow towns-aim- i, tiuUard Field. For this unique prize Maione, the great authority Shakespeare, long searched and had the satisfaction shortly before death finding and paying only $125 for his memory his brother, Lord Sunder- -i lin, presented along with other treasures 1821 Bodleian. The Passionate Pilgrim first edition, which only two other copies known. many years ago fertile region country suddenly devas- tated by the eruption volcano, Every vestigo plant life de- stroyed by the molten lava and hot ashes. To-da- y this region almost thickly cov- ered with new growth vegetation. Thero many ways by which tbe seeds plants carried great distances fepring into new life where conditions (favorable. has even been suggested that perhaps the germs lifo may carried about into stellar regions the pressure light. well known fact that parti- cles i having certain area proportion their mass driven through vacuum the pressure light alone. Among tho most curious methods eeed distribution those seeds which carried through the wings, such the maple, which has two wings, and the catalpa, tho elm, the ash and the pine. These seeds not flap their wings like birds, but depend altogether upon force tho wind carry them along. Other floating seeds the milkweed, thistle and dandelion. The milkweed seeds concealed pod which breaks open and exposes them the wind. Up they thro'ugh the air, each seed carried by ball silky down the threads which frail and diaphanous that hardly prepare tor their appearance under the micro-kop- e. Each thread turns out sepa- rate tube ribbed with dark vpinlike streaks arranged irregular manner, Wen milkweed pod bursts open much Hie miniature aero meet which score white craft soar into the morning rrnd. One may marvel the economical utrangemont the tubes down, fjpil they seem carry the heavy wed Any crossing the Great Plains ths luiumn will notice the stacks dry look-Ri- ff piled side the tfenew. know that the wind piives tbm tbtre my which ft THE SUN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1920. liouso fuOing weeds When feet, date second title being Off. Tho other sold privately 1907 and came tho United States. carries second title, Sonne(s Sundry Notes Musitke, and inscribed \At London, printed for laggard, and sold W. Leake Greyhound Paules Churchyard.\ The letterpress through- out printed sido only tho paper, and above and below the text linear wood ornament. The Epigrammes and Elegies by Sir John Davias and Christopher Marlowe, also very rnrt, only two three copies being known. The vellum covers triple volume believed contem- porary, but has been resewn. discovered lumber room Lamport Hall, near Northampton, the home Sir Charles Isham, 1867, and added tho Britwell Library 1893. this record sale second honors went the Heber collection Elizabethan ballads and broadsides, comprising eighty-eig- ht pieces, for which Mr. Smith paid $32,000. Originally consisting about 170 pieces, tho collection formed by William Fitch, tho postmaster Ipswich, and first attracted attention' 1830. Half sold, Henry Huth and formed part tho fifty books claimed by British Museum under the terms the Huth will, The re- mainder passed into tho possession Mr. Ch'ristie-Millf- lt and took their place untquo Britwell Court collection. Mr. Smith also secured tho Britwell Court the Four Shakespeare Folios, which will incrcaso numbers already America, paying $26,000 for lot, bid $12,000 for Third Folio, printed 1663, being record prico. also took tho Sbakespcaro quartos, which tho 1600 first Much Adoe About Seeds That Travel on the Wind NOT way tbe wind \blows such regions Kansas and southern Nebraska. Thoy the celebrated tumblcweed family. they tumble about they scatter their seeds and become great source annoyance the farmers. Tho plant when grown about twenty inches high, with light green leaves and green flowers crowded together clusters. thcSecds that carried about by the wind were findj favorable surroundings and grow maturity surprisingly'short tiroo the earth would overwhelmed with certaiu forms plant life. has been estimated, for instance, that single frond cer- tain fern turns loose wind four thousand million spores. Each spore floats with slightest breczo and will produce whole plant conditions favorable. These enough cover two million acres land. Few realizo the pro- ductivity the common mushroom. One thousand acres could covered by tho spores single fungus. The important part pjayed by weather means preventing the rapid development tho plant lifo the world realised only when consider the vast number seeds pro- duced. conditions tbe atmosphere favdred more even temperature over the earth, probably tbe condition the early history tho planet, there would fewer varieties plant life, because the moro rn.oidly producing plants would crowd tho others-Certai- tropical plants and ferns would found the frigid zones tho earth's atmosphere possessed sufficient amount carbon dioxide raiso mean tern- - John uneven different parta surface. The effectiveness upon the growth and develop, plant life readily upon slopes high where certain plants seem flourish almost fixed line and then seed from placo place. Whoever tramps through the autumn must extricate him- self patches which tick? ami burrs made life miserable him. All his clothes will sticking the hairy, two jointed pods seed vessels the (nil Nothing, which sold for $650 1800, cost him $11,000. One most numbers sale tho anonymous play be- lieved have been used Shakespeare writing Richard Third. has elaborate ornamental patro inscription rending: \True Tragcdio Itichard Third, wherein shown death Ed- ward Fourth, with two young Princes Tower and tho join- ing the noble Lancaster and York.\ Mr. Smith paid for this $10,000. sold for $330 1825. also secured for $12,000 edition Earl Surrey's Songes and Sonettes, only other copy which known, that Capell collection Univer- sity. copy tho 1587 edition, which found bakchouso Cobham, sold for $2,500 the Huth sale. Tho books that sour Robert Greene, who hated Shakespeare, fetched' good prices. His Quip for Upstart Courtier, Quaint Dispute Be- tween Velvet Breeches and Cloth Breeches, which vitriolic attack Spenser's friends, Harveys, comes America. first edition and only copy known. There woodcut beneath the title two full length figures representing velvet breeches and cloth breeches. by John Wolfe, and bee sold his shop Poules chayne, 1502.\ This copy contains satirical notice the Harveys, which much Gabriel Harvey and started the acrimonious quarrel between tho two writers. Tho passage other editions owing Greene's fear legal being taken by Harveys, Mr. Smith paid $6,000 for this book; Ho also bought tho 1576 edition Paradise Painty Devises, Ed wards, $8,500. has oval wood-c- ut angel holding heart below title, largo coot arms reverse title Sir Henry Compton, whom tho work dedicated. Edwards de- scribed her Majesties Three Skcltra Works, Another iuterestinjr and curious volume perature few degrees, The globular bought for America by Mr. Smith the form tho earth responsible for the laureate, Skelton's, ZJft-er- s Balettus temperature tem- perature niont demonstrated the mountains, disappear. woods needs for over interesting smothering houses the Cambridge Elizabethan, tho \imprinted the suppressed proceedings for dovice \sometimes Chappel,\ and Dyties. contains the onlv conies known jof three publications by Skelton, printed by Pynson, undated, eighteen loaves, and brought $8,600. Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, first edition, 1500, fell tho same bidder for .$5,000. Dame Juliana Berners's odd book, Hero Nature seeks other means than that Begynneth Trcatyse Fysshyngg With wind carry from have tick. 1557 gave This Angle, 1530, originally sold Haworth .ule for $100, and for $1,800 Asumirnbam sale. fetched $8,500. There quaint woodcut angler beneath tho title, repeated tbe reverse, and comprises sixteen pages, tho first separata edition and the only copy known. \Impryntcd by Wynkyn THE GEM of ike BRITWELL COURT COLLECTION SHAKESPEARE'S venus and ADONIS (FOVFOh EDITION) BOUND WITH -- the PASSIONATE PILGRIM Ofd DAVIES Old MARLOW'S EPIGRAMS and ELEGIES, BOUGHT HENRY HUNTINGTON NEW YORK $15,000. THESE TINY volumes are only fylf INCHES Oitf ARR' BOUND VELLUM TREATYSE FYSSHYN6E WITH AN ANGLE, ONLY COPY. KNOWN Of -- the FIRST EDITION PRINTED by de words l530-$8,5- 0O GEORGE D. SMITH NSW YORK BOOK A6CNT WHO BOUGHT -- the GEMS. (WOJMVVOP VNOCAWOOO Wordc dwelling Fieto strcfe sygno tho Sonne.\ Tho Wynkyn Wordo Gospels Bis laves went Mr. Smith for $9,500. sold tho Heber salo for $75. contains but thirty loaves. Under tho title woodcut two full length fig- ures women, labelled \Isengryno and darao Abudo\ respectively, with scribe seated between. ThU the only complete copy known, but there fragments in-th- British Museum and tho Bodleian. Tho work apparently translation les Evangiles des Qunailles, the joint production Fouqunrt Cam-bra- ., Antoino Duval and Jean d'Arras, and belongs close fifteenth century. How Value Books Increase. Mr. Smith also purchascJPlho 1478 i Record Prices Paid by Henry E. Huntington at Recent Sale in London Emphasis Determination of American, Collectors to Compete With European Bibliophiles Small Steamer Trunk Capable of Holding Purchases Amounting to $425,000 jsofRjamatTjcumr. to CO of THAT LATE 5Z5 OO. copy, which fetched but 1897. When Stephen Hawes Groom Chambers court Henry VII. earned shillings when lucky enough dispose ballade this Christine Pisan for $10,500. nricc Pastime Pleasure brought $5,000. that tho incrcaso values, fetched but $100 tho disposal the tho Earl Jersey's copy this latter ileber collection. Caiton brought $700 1807. Tho 1479 Here Corn- - ONLY COPIES KNON JOHN SKELTON'S WORKS, UNDATED, 8,50O THE HYE WAV rto -- the hous, by 1530 COPY KNOWN ipn itbm late mm0 CM2 MPLAYNT THEM BE TO MARYED PROBABLY UNIQUE- ,- $3,800 emphasizes Copland's the spyttell, COPLAND COPLAND Begynneth &at.622ce irreraararae ONLY EI.STENCE-- r sists eight leaves with verso seven line stanzas, and beneath title woodcut two and woman. brought $3,100, and probably only copy. most tho books sold wcro pur-chus- ed tho second and third quarters tho last century, when $100 garded high price for book, tbo Cordial, which cost tho same buyor $0,500. playnle Them that ben late Maryed flcrures broucht this salo sbnw can compared with the Ashburnhsm also went the American buyer. creaso the valuo the Britwell Court ton I 'prizes. Until recent years the Britwell library was guarded' with the strictest secrecy, and'even serious scholars were not allowed access tho buoks. The reason for this causo considerable gos- sip tho sale. J.t recalled that fino copy Spenser's Faerie Queene, 1590-G- , which among numbers sold, stolen from tho shelves by woman who, with friend, visited the undo present Mr. Christio-MiU- er and had with him. Years after returned by priest tho owner. Queer Borneo Names IT must matter difficulty for member tribo Koyans Borneo keep track his name. Among' those people, when child born, re- ceives (the namo some repulsive object simply called \it that, hav- ing distinctive name, tho evil spirits cannot identify and cause harm! When the child two three four years they name say, Tijan. Tho father thereafter known Tama Tijan Tama meaning \the father of\ and mother known Inai Tijan mother Tijan, Tho father's original name, Kebing, for example, dropped, and frequently forgotten unless there other fathers Tijans. that tho father known Tama Tijan Keb- ing, father Tijan, formerly Kebing. 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