Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: A Bibliographical RomanceDibdin, Thomas Frognall
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Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: A Bibliographical Romance
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Bibliography; Bibliomania; Book collecting; Books -- Prices
article, would make the owner to have been in possession of
100,000 volumes of printed books and MSS. The English
library, (vol. iv., pt. ii.) of nearly 3300 articles,
comprehended nearly all the best books of the day. There
were about 1200 articles of Spanish Literature. Nor was the
worthy Consul deficient in the love of the fine arts ("haec
est, sitque diu, Senis optimi voluptas et oblectatio," says
the compiler of the catalogue); having 11,000 most beautiful
prints of subjects relating to the Bible, bound up in 92
atlas folio volumes. Long live the memory of Hulsius; a
consular hero of no ordinary renown!----JENA. _Memorabilia
Bibliothecae Academicae Jenensis: sive designatio Codicum
manuscriptorum illa Bibliotheca et Librorum impressorum
plerumque rariorum. Joh. Christophoro Mylio._ Jenae, 1746,
8vo. A work of some little importance; and frequently
referred to by Vogt and Panzer. It is uncommon.----JESU SOC.
_Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu._ Antv., 1643. Romae,
1676, fol. Although this work is not a professed catalogue
of books, yet, as it contains an account of the writings of
those learned men who were in the society of the
Jesuits--and as Baillet, Antonio, and Morhof, have said
every thing in commendation of it--I strongly recommend one
or the other of these editions to the bibliographer's
attention. I possess the edition of 1643; and have
frequently found the most satisfactory intelligence on
referring to it. How clever some of the Jesuits were in
their ideas of the arrangement of a library may be seen from
their "_Systema Bibliothecae Jesuitarum Collegii
Ludoviciani_"--which was written by Garnier for the private
use of the Louvain college, and which is now extremely
difficult to be found. See Maichelius, _de Praecip. Bibl.
Parisiens_, p. 128. Their "_Systema bibliothecae collegii
Parisiensis societatis Jesu_," 1678, 4to. (or catalogue of
books in the college of Clermont), is handsomely noticed by
Camus in the _Mem. de l'Inst._, vol. i., 647.----JUST, ST.
_Catalogue des livres en tres-petit nombre qui composent la
Bibliotheque de M. Merard de St. Just, ancien maitre-d'hotel
de Monsieur, frere du Roi (avec les prix d'achat)._ Paris,
1783, 18mo. Of this book, printed upon superfine paper, of
the manufactory of d'Annonay, only 25 copies were struck
off. _Bibl. Curieuse_, p. 43. Another catalogue of the same
collection (perhaps a more copious one) was put forth in
1799, 8vo., prepared by M. Mauger, See _Diction.
Bibliographique_, tom. iv., p. xiv.----KROHN. _Catalogus
Bibliothecae Praestantissimorum &c., Librorum selectum
complectentis. Libros collegit et Literariis Catalogum
Animadversionibus instruxit, B.N. Krohn. Editio altera._
Hamb. 1796, 8vo. The preface to this very excellent
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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