Library of Th. Rawlinson, Esq.,
deceased, to be sold by auction at St. Paul's Coffee-House,
18th March, 1727-8, every evening at 5, by T. Ballard. Price
1_s._ (8vo. 24 days' sale, 3840 lots.)----XIII. _Bibliothecae
Rawlinsonianae, Pars altera_, being a Cat. of part of the
Library of Th. Rawlinson, Esq., deceased, to be sold by
auction at St. Paul's Coffee-House, 21st April, 1729, every
evening at 5, by T. Ballard. Price 1_s._ (8vo. 26 days'
sale, 4161 lots.)----XIV. _Bibliothecae Rawlinsonianae, Pars
altera_, being a Cat. of part of the Library of T.
Rawlinson, Esq., deceased, to be sold by auction at St.
Paul's Coffee-House, 24 Nov. 1729, every evening at 5, by T.
Ballard. Price 1_s._ (8vo. 18 days' sale, 2700 lots.)----XV.
_Bibliothecae Rawlinsonianae, Pars altera_, being a Cat. of
part of the Library of T. Rawlinson, F.R.S., deceased, to be
sold by auction 13th Nov., 1732, at St. Paul's Coffee-House,
every evening at 5, by Tho. Ballard. Price 1_s._ (8vo. 26
days' sale, 3456 lots.)----XVI. _Codicum Manuscriptorum
Bibliothecae Rawlinsonianae Catalogus--cum appendice
Impressorum_--to be sold 4th March, 1733-4, at St. Paul's
Coffee-House, every night at 6, by T. Ballard. Price 1_s._
(8vo., 16 days' sale, MSS. 1020 lots--appendix 800). To
these may be added, _Picturae Rawlinsonianae_--being the
collection of original paintings of T. Rawlinson, Esq.,
F.R.S., by the best masters--part of which were formerly the
Earl of Craven's Collection. To be sold by auction, at the
Two Golden Balls, in Hart Street, Covent Garden, 4th April,
1734, at 11. 8vo. (117 lots.) Now let any man, in his sober
senses, imagine what must have been the number of volumes
contained in the library of the above-named THOMAS
RAWLINSON? Does he imagine that the tomes in the Bodleian,
Vatican, and British Museum were, in each single collection,
more numerous than those in the _Aldersgate Street_
repository?--Or, at any rate, would not a view of this
Aldersgate Street collection give him the completest idea of
the _ne plus ultra_ of BOOK-PHRENSY in a private collector?
Rawlinson would have cut a very splendid figure, indeed,
with posterity, if some judicious catalogue-maker, the
Paterson of former times, had consolidated all these
straggling _Bibliothecal_ corps in