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FOR ANCIENT ENGLISH BOOKS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, Jan 27. Two most famous items of English incunabula (books relating to the infancy of p.inting, especially liefore 1500) were sold to-day to Americans in the auction oi the library of the Marquess of Lothian here. A Tilcytt Psalter brought sixty-one thousand dollars, and the Buckling Homilies brought fiftv-five thousand dollars.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 5
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64BIG PRICES Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 5
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