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A very instructive exhibition is now being held at the New York Public Library showing the processes of printmaking in detail and including etchings, mezzotints, graphs, wood engraving, Japanese prints, zinc etchings and half-tones. litho color Arthur H. Hahlo & Company, of this city, recently sold to a collector 270 etchings and 182 lithographs of Whistler for more than $300,000. Last February the same firm sold an important Whistler collection at between $300,000 and $500,000. The last buyer has not been announced but the first one is now admitted to be H. H. Whittemore, of Naugutuck, Conn. These two transactions, within the calendar year, approach closely to threequarters of a million dollars. The gem of the De Puy sale of Americana (Part I) proved to be "A shorte and briefe narration of the two navigations and discoveries to the Northwest partes called Newe Fraunce," by Jacques Cartier, translated into English by John Florio, London, 1580, levant by Bradstreet, one of the earliest books relating to Canada, and the first book in English on the Iroquois Indians. It brought $5,600. The only copies which have occurred at auction are the Ives and Huth copies, the former going to E. D. Church, now in the Huntington library, and the Huth copy to J. B. Stetson. The remaining four copies are in the British Museum, John Carter Brown library, the Lenox library and the Huntington-Britwell copy. A print said to be unique and the earliest American view was sold at the Phillips sale last June. Without doubt it was issued a few years after the discovery of America by Columbus and was printed at Augsburg about the year 1500. It is a large wood engraving measuring 132 by 84 inches, representing savages of Brazil, which had just been discovered, in a hut with their wives and children, dressed in their native dress and head gear. Its title translated reads: "This figure shows us the people and island which is discovered by the Christian King of Portugal." This print, it now develops, was bought by Henry Stevens at the sale of the Valentia library, at Lord Montmorreau's residence, December 6, 1852, and cost him £18 10s. At the Phillips sale it brought £470. པ་ RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS At a recent exhibition at the King's Library, in London, where many Chinese items of remarkable antiquity were exhibited there were two specimens of block printing. One of these was a complete copy of the popular "Diamond Sutra," which according to the colophon was "respectfully made for universal distribution by Wang Chieh on behalf of his two parents on the 15th day of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Hsien-t'ung," a date which works out as May 11, 868. As frontispiece to the text, there is quite an elaborate wood engraving of Buddha, who is seen sitting in state amid numerous attendants and instructing his disciple Subhuti. The work of the block cutter has been executed with technical skill of a high order. Before the discovery of this roll the invention of block printing had usually been credited to one Feng Tao, who was born in 881 and died in 954. It is now evident that the date of this invention must be pushed a good deal further back-quite probably a A couple of centuries or more. 居屋惠 The library of William Loring Andrews has been purchased by James F. Drake, rare book dealer, at a price in the neighborhood of $250,000. The collection covers a wide range from early printing to the best work of the presses of our own time; fine examples by the master binders of all periods including the best work of those of our own time; many rare items of Americana including the Bradford Map of 1731, the first map of New York; rare autographs, manuscripts, first editions, association books, extra-illustrated books, etc. Mr. Andrews' collection of books relating to New York City and his bindings of Roger Payne are especially noteworthy. Mr. Andrews has been called a gem or nugget collector. His insistence that every book be a rare and worthy one, always in the best condition, entitles him to the term. The sale is one of the most important ever made to an American rare book dealer and it must give Mr. Andrews great satisfaction to have his books go to one who is so sure to place them in appreciative hands. The association books and manuscripts of George S. Hellman were sold at the Anderson Galleries on the evenings of November 25 and 26. The Stevenson collection of manuscripts and books brought $6900; the Andrew Johnson collection of autograph letters and books $1760; the manuscripts of Washington Irving, six in number, from $195 to $570 each; original sketch book of William and Robert Blake, $625; A. L. S. of Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner asknowledging receipt of the speech "The Barbarian of Slavery," $255; autograph manuscripts of six compositions by Edward A. McDowell, $255; Tennyson's "The Princess," containing five songs in the handwriting of Lady Tennyson, $105; original manuscripts of eight unpublished essays by Thoreau, about 22 pages, 4to, $405; original manuscript of Walt Whitman, 5 pages, 4to, $75; another entitled "Spring Song," by the same author, $122.50; A. L. 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