he
"avant-propos" prefixed to the subsequent catalogue here
following:----_Livres rares et precieux de la Bibliotheque
de feu M. Ant. Bern. Caillard_, Paris, 1808, 8vo. There were
but twenty-five copies of this catalogue of truly valuable,
and, in many respects, rare, and precious, books, printed
upon LARGE PAPER, of the same size as the preceding. This
was the sale catalogue of the library of Caillard, who died
in 1807, in his sixty-ninth year, and of whose
bibliomaniacal spirit we have a most unequivocal proof in
his purchasing De Cotte's celebrated uncut copy of the first
printed Homer, at an enormous sum! [vide COTTE, post.] "Sa
riche bibliotheque est a-la-fois un monument de son amour
pour l'art typographique, et de la vaste etendue de ses
connoissances," p. xiv. Some excellent indexes close this
volume; of which Mr. Payne furnished me with the loan of his
copy upon LARGE PAPER.----CAMBIS. _Catalogue des principaux
manuscrits du cabinet de M. Jos. L.D. de Cambis_, Avignon,
1770, 4to. Although this is a catalogue of MSS., yet, the
number of copies printed being very few, I have given it a
place here. Some of these copies contain but 519, others
766, pages; which shews that the owner of the MSS. continued
publishing his account of them as they increased upon him.
Rive, in his "_Chasse aux bibliographes_," has dealt very
roughly with the worthy Cambis; but Peignot tells us that
this latter was a respectable literary character, and a
well-informed bibliographer--and that his catalogue, in
spite of Rive's diatribe, is much sought after. See the
_Bibliogr. Curieuse_, p. 14; also _Cat. de la Valliere_,
vol. iii., no. 5543.----CAMUS DE LIMARE. _Catalogues des
livres de M. le Camus de Limare_, Paris, 1779, 12mo.--_Des
livres rares et precieux de M---- (Camus de Limare)_, Paris,
1786, 8vo.--_Des livres rares et precieux, relies en
maroquin, de la bibliotheque du meme, Paris, an trois_
(1795), 8vo. Of the _first_ catalogue only a small number of
copies was printed, and those for presents. _Bibliogr.
Curieuse_, p. 15. It contains a description of De Boze's
extraordinary copy of Du Fresnoy's "Methode pour etudier
l'Histoire," 1729, 4to., four volumes, with the supplement,
1740, two vols.; which was sold for 1500 livres; and which