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19. Byzantine Historiæ Scriptores in unum corpus redacti. Gr. et Lat. Venet. 1722-33. 27 vol. fol. Contains the 26 first parts of the original edition.

ART. LXVI.

GENERAL COLLECTIONS

OF ANTIQUITIES.

1. Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcarum congestus et editus à Jacobo Gronovio, cum figuris æneis: Accedunt Joannis Potteri Archæologia Græca, necnon Indices in corpus Antiquitatum. Lugd. Batavor. 1697, et ann. seqq. 13 vol. fol.

2. Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum congestus à Johanne Georgio Grævio, cum figuris æneis. Lugd. Batavor. 1694, et ann. seqq. 12 vol. fol.

3. Alb. Henrici de Sallengre Novus Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, cum figuris æneis. Hage Comit. 1716. et ann. seqq. 3 vol. fol.

4. Samuelis Pitisci Lexicon Antiquitatum Romanorum. Leovardiæ, 1713. 2 vol. fol.

5. Utriusque Thesauri Antiquitatum Græcarum et Romanarum nova Supplement a, cum figuris æneis, ex editione Jo. Poleni. Venetiis, 1737. 5 vol. fol.

6. Inscriptiones Antiquæ totius Orbis Romani a Jano

Grutero collecta; Editio Nova, multis accessionibus locupletior, curante Joanne Georgio Grævio. Amstelodami, 1707. 4 vol. fol.

7. Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiæ Mari Ligustico et Alpibus Vicine, collectus curá Jo. Geo. Grævii, et editus cum præfationibus Petri Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1704, 1723, et ann. seqq. 9 tom. in 30 vol. fol.

8. Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Siciliæ, Sardiniæ, Corsica, aliarumque Insularum adjacentium, digeri captus à Joanne Georgio Grævio, et editus à Petro Burmanno, cum figuris æneis. Lugd. Bat. 1723, et ann. seq. 15 vol. fol.

Of these Collections, those of BURMANN are last esteemed.

ART. LXVII. S. ENGEL.

Bibliotheca Selectissima sive Catalogus Librorum in omni genere Scientiarum rarissimorum : Quos maximis sumptibus, summoque studio ac cura, per plurimos annos collegit, nunc vero Venum exponit

Samuel Engel, in Republica Helveto-Bernensi Bibliothecarius Primarius. Qui et huncce Catalogum ordine Alphabetico concinnavit, simul ac Notis criticis perpetuis illustravit.

Bernæ, Typis Franc. Samuel Fætscherin. MDCCXLIII. 8.° pp. 186. Preface and Title p. 16.

De Bure speaks well of this Catalogue, as an useful aid to Bibliography.

See Res Lit. III. p. 442. for another publication of this learned Librarian.

ART. LXVIII. A. BEYERUS.

Augusti Beyeri Memoria Historico - Criticæ Librorum Rariorum. Dresdæ et Lipsia, 1734. 8.0

A little volume much esteemed for its choice of Books, and its dissertations on the subject.

ART. LXIX. JOAN. VOGHT.

Joannis Voght Catalogus Historico-Criticus Librorum Rariorum. Hamburgi, 1753. 8.0

This useful little Work bears a good repu

tation.

To this may be added Freytag's (1) Anna- lecta Literaria de Libris rarioribus. Lips. 1750. 8.o; and Schelhorn's Amanitates Literariæ, 14 vol. 4. Francofurti, 1730-1731; also his Amanitates Hist. et Eccl. Francof. 1737, 4 vol. 4.o also De Ant. Lat. Bib. edit. Diatr. Ulmæ, 1760. 4.o

(1) Also his Adparatus Literarius. Lipsiæ, 1752, 3 vol. 8.o

rares

ART. LXX. DAV. CLEMENT.

Bibliothèque Curieuse, ou Catalogue raisonné des Livres et difficiles à trouver, par David Clement. Gottingen, 1750, et ann. suiv. 9 vol. 4.o

This Work is ranged in Alphabetical order. Death unfortunately stopped the Author's labours with the Letter H.

De Bure admits that this Work contains many rare articles discussed with intelligence and erudition but on the other hand that it is deformed by misplaced eulogies on a great number of books of mediocrity, and common and uninteresting editions; which are pronounced rare, or very rare. Yet he bears testimony that, if finished, it would have been found exceedingly useful to those savants, who

nation.

possess discrimi

I observe that its price is much sunk in Longman's last Catalogue, (1822) but marketprice is but a whimsical criterion of intrinsic merit.

ART. LXXI. WOLFG. PANZER.

Geor. Wolfg. Panzer Annales Typographici ab artis in

ventæ origine ad annum 1536, post Maittairii, Denisii, aliorumque curas in ordinem redacti et aucti. Norimberga, 1793-1803. 11 vol. 4°

This is the most complete work on this subject but it does not intirely supersede the use of Maittaire's Annals; and still leaves much undone, particularly with regard to the editions from 1501, of which Brunet says that it does not contain a moiety.

ART. LXXII. MAITTAIRE'S ANNALS.

1. Mich. Maittaire Annales Typographiæ ab artis inventæ origine ad ann. 1557, (cum Appendice ad ann. 1664.) Hage Comit. 1719-1725. 3 tom. in 5 vol. 4.°

2.

Eorumdem Annalium tom. 1. editio nova. Amst.

1733. 2 tom. in 1 vol. 4.°

This is a new work, which forms the Iv.th vol. of the Aunals.

3.

Eorumdem tomus IV. indicem complectens. Londini, 1741. 2 partes. in 4.°

This very learned work retains both its estimation, and its price.

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