the works above-mentioned, in the text, has obtained an
unperishable reputation as a bibliographer. The _Bibliotheca
Bibliothecarum_, thick duodecimo, or crown octavo, has run
through several impressions; of which the Leipsic edit. of
1682, is as good as any; but TEISSER, in his work under the
same title, 1686, 4to., has greatly excelled Labbe's
production, as well by his corrections of errata as by his
additions of some hundreds of authors. The _Bibliotheca
Nummaria_ is another of Labbe's well-known performances: in
the first part of which he gives an account of those who
have written concerning medals--in the second part, of those
who have publishe [Transcriber's Note: published] separate
accounts of coins, weights, and measures. This is usually
appended to the preceding work, and is so published by
Teisser. The _Mantissa Suppellectilis_ was an unfinished
production; and the _Specimen novae Bibliothecae
Manuscriptorum Librorum_, Paris, 1653, 4to., is too
imperfectly executed for the exercise of rigid criticism;
although Baillet calls it 'useful and curious.' Consult the
_Polyhist. Literar._, vol. i., 197, 203: and _Jugemens des
Savans_, vol. ii., pt. 1, p. 24, edit. 1725. A list of
Labbe's works, finished, unfinished, and projected, was
published at Paris, in 1656 and 1662. He was joint editor
with Cossart of that tremendously voluminous work--the
"Collectio Maxima Conciliorum"--1672, 18 volumes, folio.]

[Footnote 123: LAMBECIUS died at, one may almost say, the
premature age of 52: and the above work (in eight folio
volumes), which was left unfinished in consequence, (being
published between the years 1665-79 inclusive) gives us a
magnificent idea of what its author would have accomplished
[see particularly Reimanni _Bibl. Acroamatica_, p. 51] had
it pleased Providence to prolong so valuable an existence.
It was originally sold for 24 _imperiali_; but at the
commencement of the 18th century for not less than 80
_thaleri_, and a copy of it was scarcely ever to be met
with. Two reasons have been assigned for its great rarity,
and especially for that of the 8th volume; the one, that
Lambecius's heir, impatient at the slow sale of the work,
sold many copies of it to the keepers of herb-stalls: the
other, that, when the a