e entire collection was dispersed by public
auction: after it had been offered for the purchase of one
or two eminent London booksellers, who have repented, and
will repent to their dying day, their declining the offer.
This catalogue is most unostentatiously executed upon very
indifferent paper; and, while an excellent index enables us
to discover any work of which we may be in want, the
beautiful copies from this collection which are in the
Cracherode library in the British Museum, give
unquestionable proof of the splendour of the books. For the
credit of French bibliography, I hope there are some few
copies upon LARGE PAPER.----TELLIER. _Bibliotheca
Tellereana, sive Catalogus Librorum Bibliotheca Caroli
Mauritii Le Tellier, Archiepiscopi Ducis Remensis. Parisiis,
e Typographia Regia_, 1693, fol. A finely engraved portrait
of Tellier faces the title-page. This is a handsome volume,
containing a numerous and well-chosen collection of
books.----THUANUS. [DE THOU] _Bibliothecae Thuanae Catalogus_,
Parisiis, 1679, 8vo. "Three particular reasons," says
Baillet, "should induce us to get possession of this
catalogue; first, the immortal glory acquired by De Thou in
writing his history, and in forming the most perfect and
select library of his age: and secondly, the abundance and
excellence of the books herein specified; and, thirdly, the
great credit of the bibliographers Du Puys and Quesnel, by
whom the catalogue was compiled." _Jugemens des Savans_,
vol. ii., p. 144, &c. Morhof is equally lavish in
commendation of this collection. See his _Polyhist.
Literar._, vol. i., 36, 211. The Books of De Thou, whose
fame will live as long as a book shall be read, were
generally in beautiful condition, with his arms stamped upon
the exterior of the binding, which was usually of Morocco;
and, from some bibliographical work (I think it is
Santander's catalogue), I learn that this binding cost the
worthy president not less than 20,000 crowns. De Thou's copy
of the editio princeps of Homer is now in the British
Museum; having been presented to this national institution
by the Rev. Dr. Cyril Jackson, who has lately resigned the
deanery of Christ Church College, Oxford,--"and who is now
wisely gone to enjoy the evening of life in repose,
swe