[7] The library of Richard Heber was sold a few years after this supposed incident. The various sessions of the auction occupied portions of two hundred days, from 1834 to 1836. [8] Nodier used the term “ménecheme,” or twin brother, a word taken from a comedy by Plautus. [9] The thirty-sixth part of an inch. [10] “HOMERI OPERA, græce. Florentiæ, sumptibus Bern. et Nerii Nerliorum. 1488.” Two volumes, folio. The first edition of Homer, printed at the expense of the brothers Nerli, after a copy prepared by Demetrius Chalcondyles of Athens. The De Cotte copy was uncut, and sold for 3601 francs. It was bought by M. Caillard, and passed into the Bibliothèque du Roi after his death, where it replaced a vellum copy that the French were constrained to return to the library of Saint Marc, Venice. [11] The “Trinitate” of Servetus: a small octavo, printed in 1531. A copy was sold as indicated. See Brunet’s “Manuel du Libraire.” [12] “BIBLIOTHÈQUE CURIEUSE, ou catalogue raisonné de livres difficiles à trouver. Par David Clement. Göttingen, 1750-1760.” Nine volumes, 4to. Many of the books described in this catalogue, which was carried only to the letter H, have yet to be found; in fact, it is largely conceded that they do not--perhaps never did--exist. [13] The Giunta edition of Boccaccio, printed at Firenze, 1527, is esteemed the best edition of this famous book. A so-called facsimile was printed at Venice in 1729, but the counterfeit is discovered by the formation of the a, as indicated. [Illustration: THE DE VINNE PRESS]