The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-11-06

general makeup bespoke the seuuipe
antiquity of the chest.
what's In that old trunk?" asked Mr.
Fullerton, who found little to intarast
him in the spinning wheel.
con. lot Of old books and stufq -
answered MI. MoCord. carelessly. ssI,va
never taken the trou BILE to read them ),
Mr.. Fullerton, who has rare col,ac-
ton of his own, was at once Interested
He began an examination of the differ
snt volumes and discovered that every
one of them was unusually valuable
He recognized IN the lou the collection OF
some enthusiastic bibliophile, who had
spent a great deal of time, travel and
money in getting 1t together and then.
in some mysterious manner, died with
out leaving it in eppreoiatfve hands.
There were few oJher things than
books In the trunk. The most INTEREST
ing of these curios was medallion of
George Washington done on ivory. The
miniature shows the father of his coun-
try at an advanced age, with high brow
and hollow cheeks. The expression is
good, but quite unusual. The large roll
of bills was made up of bank money
otes of the Bank of Perth AEboy and
the Bank of Georgetown. The copper
coins of 1909 and 1904, a dozen or more
in nun her, were in "a tiny gill measure.
But the books claimed Mr.. Fullerton s
attention. They were nearly all bound
in original vellum and bore the unmis-
umes were in the illu minated prints of
tho fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and
none of them bore q later date than 1910.
Among them no found an original
history of the voyages OF Christopl err
Columbus, by his sob, Fernando, printed
at Milan. There was an Elzevir in the
lot printed in 1888, containing crude
map Of New Amsterdam. AS this part
of America was not settled until 1899,
it is safe to say that this map is the frs
one ever published of New York and vi
oinity. This volume contains ten other
maps of the new world, with interest
ing wood cuts of American history and
botany. There were also books giving
maps of North and South America,
printed in 1646.
Some particularly rare volumes of
was the History Of the Wars in SCOT
land printed in 1920; another His
tory of Cromwell's Repellion," printed
in 1915; still another gave the Works
of the Great Monarch, King Charles ]. !"
rhis volume was printed after King
Charles's death in The Hague. Crom-
well would not permit anything favor
able to Charles to be published in Eng
land. SO the book was taken to The
Hague to be issued. A history of the
Reign of Queen Anne of England"
contains some fine wood cut maps. One
pictures the battle of Blenheim, won By
the first Duke of Marlborough. and it is
a significant fact that on IA banner car
ried by the Dukes forces appears the
word "Consuelo. "The Life and Ex-
ploits of Famous English Highwaymen, -
printed In 1913, ia illustrated with sever
al remarkable crimes of that period.
There are many works on religious
themes, the rarest of which are the two
small volumes comprising New Testa-
ment printed in 1866. One large, curl
ously bound book, tells of the expulsion
of the Jesuits from France, and was
pr inted in 1894. A history of the Gath
printed in 1858, and the first edition of
work on the AuRuenots. printed In
Venice in 1897, together with a number
of old ecclesiastical works of the SIX
teenth and seventeenth centuries. mako
up the remainder of the religious vol.
umes OF the collection.
Among the II miscellaneous books Is one
rare colonial volume, Letters to the
Right Honorable the Earl of Hilsbur-
ough, from Governor Bernard. General
Gage and the Honorable His Majesty's
Counsel for the Province of Massaohu-
setts Bay. With an Appendix Contain
ing Divers Proceedings Referred to in
Said Letters.'' This is marked as printed
by Edes & Gill, printers of the colony,
1869. Other volumes are "The Inn Play.
err" book on wrestling by Sir Thomas
Parky, of Bunny, barouet, 1877: mag
azine of the seventeenth century book on
LUCK, III luck and Lotteries printed
in 1858; an early American almanac;s
New England Primer. - printed in 1910
and bound with cedar: The Art of
Conversation, by Stephen Guazzo,
printed in 1888: dozen or more volumes
of the drama printed In 1850, and about
twenty volumes bound in vellum and
treating of various su bjects in the Span
ish language.