ged and uncommon
catalogue. Annexed to it there is an account of the press of
the Comini, which belonged to the owners of this collection.
The reader may consult _Bibl. Crevenn._, vol. v., pp. 302-3;
and Dr. Clarke's _Bibliogr. Miscell._, vol. ii.,
72.----VOYAGE _de deux Francais dans le nord de l'Europe, en
1790-92, (par M. de Fortia)_ Paris, 1796, 8vo., 5 vols. That
the collector of catalogues may not scold me for this
apparent deviation from the subject discussed in this note,
I must inform him, upon the authority of Peignot, that these
interesting volumes contain "some account of the most
beautiful and curious books contained in the Libraries of
the North, and in those of Italy, Spain, Holland, &c."
_Curiosites Bibliographiques_, p. lviii.----DE WITT.
_Catalogus Bibliothecae Joannis De Witt_, Dordraci, 1701,
12mo. The preface to this catalogue, (from which an extract
was given in the _first_ edition of my "_Introduction to the
Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics_," 1802, 8vo.,)
gives us a pleasing account of an ardent and elegant young
man in the pursuit of every thing connected with Virtu. De
Witt seems to have been, in books and statues, &c., what his
great ancestor was in politics--"paucis comparandus." A
catalogue of the library of a collector of the same name was
published at Brussels, in 1752, by De Vos. See _Cat. de
Santander_, vol. iv., no. 6334.----ZURICH. _Catalogus
librorum Bibliothecae Tigurinae._ Tiguri, 1744, 8vo., 4 vols.
Although the last, this is not the most despicable,
catalogue of collections here enumerated. A reading man, who
happens to winter in Switzerland, may know, upon throwing
his eyes over this catalogue, that he can have access to
good books at Zurich--the native place of many an
illustrious author! The following, which had escaped me, may
probably be thought worthy of forming an

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BERN. _Cat. Codd. MSS. Bibl. Bernensis. Cum annotationibus,
&c. Curante Sinner._ Bernae, 1760, 8vo. A very curious and
elegantly printed Catalogue with three plates of
fac-similes.----PARKER [ABP.] _Catalog. Libror. MSS. in
Bibl. Coll. Corporis Christi in Cantab., quos legavit M.
Parkerus Archiepiscop. Cant._ Lond., 1722, fol.; _Eorundem
Libror. MSS. Catalogus. Edidit J.