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Show MORE RARE BOOKS IN HOE .COLLECTION Now York, May S. Another Gutenberg Guten-berg Bible and four more Caxtons are among tho 29,000 volumes of the Robert Rob-ert Hoe library still unsold which will make up tho three other parts of the sale Tho Gutenberg is printed on paper and while It is not considered as rare as the copy on vellum for which Henry E. Huntington paid $50,000. it Jsexpected that it will bring at least $35,000. One of the four Caxtons Is a perfect copy of Ranulf Hlgden's "Polychronl-con," "Polychronl-con," which Caxton translated about HS2. It Is particularly interesting because It Is Caxton's onh original work of any magnitude. There aro only five perfect copies in existence, of which the Hoe cony is the finesL Among the many other rarities are a Queen Elizabeth prayer-book and the finest collection of Walton and Cotton's "Complete Angler" ever offered of-fered for sale, consisting of about fifty different editions, including the famous fam-ous firsts. There is a remarkable collection of scarce editions of Francis Bacon, Chapman, Dryden, Milton, Marlowe, Quarles. Suckling. Spencer, Sydney; the most complete collection in existence exis-tence of Goldsmith and a lot of interesting in-teresting and valuable Americans. |