Beccles.
Governor Brooks, about a century since, was governor of one of the West India Islands. I have heard Cuba named as his government; and it might have been that, the short time Cuba was in
the possession of the English, he was governor of it; but I am uncertain. If any correspondent, versed in West Indian affairs, can give me any particulars of the family and antecedents of the above, or any reference to his services (for I suppose him to have been a military man), it will great oblige
Tee Bee.
Old Books.—I notice some of your correspondents, having fancied that they have picked up at some old book-stall an invaluable treasure, are coolly told by others more learned, "It would be a bad exchange for a shilling;" and, again, "If it cost three shillings and sixpence, the purchaser was most unfortunate."
May I ask the value of the following? They came into possession of my family about thirty years ago:
"Epitome Thesauri antiquitatum hoc est Impp. Rom. orientalium et occidentalium Iconum ex antiquis numismatibus quam fidelissime delineatum.
"Ex Musæo Jacobi de Strada Mantuani Antiquatum.
"Lugduni, apud Jacobum de Strada et Thomam Guercinum, MDLIII. (1553). Cum Privilegio Regio."
Handsomely got up; gilt edges, pp. 339. Also,
"Sommario delle vite de gl'Imperiatore Romani da C. Giolio Cesare sino a Ferdinando II., con le loro effigie Causte dalle Medaglie: In Roma apresso, Lodovico Grignani, MDCXXXVII, pp. 80."
Bristoliensis.