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Referenced as a 1598 first edition that passenger Henry Widner picked up before the sinking. A fellow bibliophile called this 'the most touching, most pathetic, with all the most glorious incident in the romance of book collecting.'

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Mentioned as a 1598 edition that Harry Widener, a bibliophile passenger, had bought for £260 and was carrying with him on the ship.

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Described as a didactic novel about an island of scientists in the Pacific, which inspired the Royal Society