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the signs of the zodiac. These verses are by a fellow Dominican who is also anInquisitor’ (Yates, p. 122).This work also contains the first finger alphabet to appear in a book (seeVolkmann, Ars memorativa, p. 170). ‘Rosselli’s finger alphabet ... not onlycontinues the mnemonic tradition but also suggests further development of thefingers and the hand as an instrument of visual communication, allied with, buteffective as a substitute for oral and written language’ (Claire Richter Sherman,Writing on Hands. Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 52).95. SATGÉ, Oscar John de. Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Squatter.London, Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1901.8vo, pp. [10], 416, [4 (advertisements)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece, 34 platesincluded in the pagination, and 2 colour-printed folding lithographic maps byStanford; a very good copy in the original green cloth, upper board and spinelettered in gilt, spine slightly leant; presentation inscription on front freeendpaper ‘T. Musgrave Francis (Chairman of Addenbrooke’s Hospital GeneralCommittee 1923-1931) with the good wishes of The Author’. £600First edition. Born in England to an aristocratic French father and an Englishmother, de Satgé (1836-1906) was educated at Rugby School. In 1853 he embarkedin Melbourne and was appointed a Clerk in the Goldfields’ Commission, throughthe good offices of Charles La Trobe. Following a position as a parliamentary clerk,de Satgé decided to gain pastoral experience by joining his brother at cattle stationson the Darling Downs, and this marked the beginning of a successful career in thebooming livestock businesses of the continent. De Satgé also pursued a politicalcareer, and ‘[i]n the Queensland Legislative Assembly [he] had represented