guage of Morhof: _Polyhist. Literar._,
vol. i., 212.----SERNA SANTANDER. _Catalogue des livres de
la Bibliotheque de M.C. De La Serna Santander; redige et mis
en ordre par lui meme; avec des notes bibliographiques et
litteraires_, &c. Bruxelles, 1803, 8vo., five volumes. An
extensive collection of interesting works; with a
sufficiently copious index at the end of the fourth volume.
The fifth volume contains a curious disquisition upon the
antiquity of signatures, catchwords, and numerals; and is
enriched with a number of plates of watermarks of the paper
in ancient books. This catalogue, which is rarely seen in
our own country, is well worth a place in any library. It is
a pity the typographical execution of it is so very
indifferent. For the credit of a bibliographical taste, I
hope there were a few copies struck off upon LARGE
PAPER.----SION COLLEGE. _Catalogus universalis librorum
omnium in Bibliotheca Collegii Sionii apud Londinenses_;
Londini, 1650, 4to. _Ejusdem Collegii librorum Catalogus,
&c., Cura Reading_, Lond., 1724, fol. As the first of these
catalogues (of a collection which contains some very curious
and generally unknown volumes) was published before the
great fire of London happened, there will be found some
books in it which were afterwards consumed, and therefore
not described in the subsequent impression of 1724. This
latter, which Tom Osborne, the bookseller, would have called
a "pompous volume," is absolutely requisite to the
bibliographer: but both impressions should be procured, if
possible. The folio edition is common and cheap.----SMITH
[CONSUL]. _Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus Librorum
D.J. Smithii Angli, per cognomina Authorum dispositus._
Venetiis, 1755, 4to. _A Catalogue of the curious, elegant,
and very valuable library of Joseph Smith, Esq., His
Britannic Majesty's Consul at Venice, lately deceased_,
1773, 8vo. These are the catalogues of the collections of
books occasionally formed at Venice, by Mr. Joseph Smith,
during his consulship there. The quarto impression contains
a description of the books which were purchased "en masse"
by his present majesty. It is singularly well executed by
Paschali, comprehending, by way of an appendix, the prefaces
to those volumes in the collection which w