odern taste, save
the _Cuisinier Francois_, and perhaps that was not in the old morocco
livery considered by judges as _de rigueur_. We append the
auctioneer's account entire, because it exhibits a fair example of the
class of book which not only Frenchmen, but ourselves, sought at that
time more than those for which we have long learned to compete, and
which were then offered under the hammer by the bundle, if not by the
basketful. For L8, 4s., a hundred and twenty-five years ago, how many
quarto Shakespears could one have acquired?

THE CHEVALIER D'EON,
_Bought of Baker & Leigh_.

L s. d.

Catalogus Librorum MSS. Angl. et Hibern 0 7 6
Index Librorum Bibliothecae Barberinae, 2 vols. 0 10 6
Reading Catal. Lib. in Collegio Sionensi 0 4 0
Le Long, Bibliotheque Hist. de la France 0 9 0
Voyage Literaire de deux Religieux Benedictins 0 5 0
Histoire de Demelez de la Cour de France 0 2 6
Memoires sur le Rang entre les Souv. de l'Europe, &c. 0 2 6
Discours Politiques sur Tacite, par Josseval 0 2 0
Dictionnaire Mathematique, par Ozanam 0 5 0
Dictionnaire Practique du Bon Menager de Campagne,
par Liger, 2 vols. 0 6 0
Leland agt. Bolingbroke's Study of History 0 2 0
Mutel's Causes of the Corruption of Christians 0 1 0
Bindon on Commerce 0 2 6
Essay on Money, Trade, War, Banks, &c. 0 1 0
England's Gazetteer, 3 vols. 0 7 6
Halifax's Advice to a Daughter 0 1 0
Tresor de la Pratique de Medecine, 3 vols. 0 4 0
Seneque de la Consolation de la Mort 0 1 0
Tacite (la Morale de) par Houssaie 0 1 6
Tite Live reduit en Maximes 0 1 0
Gracien l'Homme Universel 0 1 6
L'Ecole de l'Homme 0 2 6
Memoire pour diminuer le nombre de Preces 0 1 6
Receuil des Edits 0 1 6
Le Secret des Cours, par Walsingham