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"Upon my word Scotch, English, and foreign coins, of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and some of them rari et rariores etiam rarissimi! Here is the bonnet-piece of James V., the unicorn of James II., ay, and the gold festoon of Queen Mary, with her head and the Dauphin's. And these were really found in the ruins of St. Ruth?" "Most assuredly my own eyes witnessed it."
Not that the rarissimi of early printed books can ever be purchased for a trifle; but it should ever be remembered that even at the sales where a few a very few bring the enormous prices that are bruited abroad, the mass of the books offered are knocked down at very moderate figures, or are even sacrificed at rates very far below their cost.
"Upon my word Scotch, English, and foreign coins, of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and some of them rari et rariores etiam rarissimi! Here is the bonnet-piece of James V., the unicorn of James II., ay, and the gold festoon of Queen Mary, with her head and the Dauphin's. And these were really found in the ruins of St. Ruth?" "Most assuredly my own eyes witnessed it."
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