Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to inform you about the upcoming auction sale of a very important historical book on the history of Europe. It will be coming up for public auction at Sotheby's Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts in New York on June 3, 1997. The title of this book is 'Tripartitum opus iuris confuetudinarii inclytiregni Hungarie: per magistru Stephanum de Werbewcz'. This rare volume is the Latin first edition of old Hungarian empire basic law printed in Vienna in May, 1517. It is one of the most famous items of rare Hungarica in the Hungarian Collection at the Library of Congress. You might want to visit the Library of Congress Site at the address below. gopher://marvel.loc.gov/00/research/reading.rooms/european/bibs.guides/guides/0 8hungar.txt If you yourself, or you know someone, who might be interested in this important text, and beautiful work of art and heritage on old European empire, please contact the New York Sotheby's Book and Manuscripts Department for more details at the following numbers: Phone: (212) 606-7385 or Fax: (212) 606-7041. Greetings to all fellow academics! Suzan