hearts of Spanish Literati. A new edition of the first work
was published at Madrid, in 1783, 2 vols., folio; and of the
latter work, in 1788, 2 vols., folio.--These recent editions
are very rarely to be met with in our own country: abroad,
they seem to have materially lowered the prices of the
ancient ones, which had become excessively scarce. See
_Polyhist Literar._, vol. i., 203-4: _Dictionn. Bibliogr._,
vol. iv., p. 22: and _Mem. de l'Inst._, vol. i., 651. Let us
here not forget the learned Michael CASIRI'S _Bibliotheca
Arabico-Hispana Escorialensis_, published in two superb
folio volumes at Madrid in 1760. All these useful and
splendid works place the Spaniards upon a high footing with
their fellow-labourers in the same respectable career. De La
Serna Santander tells us that Casiri's work is dear, and
highly respected by the Literati. See _Cap. de Santander_,
vol iv., no. 6296.]

[Footnote 125: The _Bibliotheca Realis_, &c., of LIPENIUS
contains an account of works published in the departments of
_Jurisprudence_, _Medicine_, _Philosophy_, and _Theology_:
of these, the _Bibliotheca Theologica_, et _Philosophica_,
are considered by Morhof as the best executed. The _Bibl.
Juridica_ was, however, republished at Leipsic in two folio
volumes, 1757, with considerable additions. This latter is
the last Leipsic reprint of it. Saxius notices only the
re-impressions of 1720, 1736, 1742. See his _Onomast. Lit._,
vol. v., 588. I will just notice the _Bibliotheca Vetus et
Recens_ of KOENIGIUS, 1678, folio--as chart-makers notice
shoals--to be avoided. I had long thrown it out of my own
collection before I read its condemnation by Morhof. Perhaps
the following account of certain works, which appear to have
escaped the recollection of Lysander, may not be
unacceptable. In the year 1653, Father RAYNAUD, whose
lucubrations fill 20 folio volumes, published a quarto
volume at Lyons, under the title of "_Erotemata de malis ac
bonis Libris, deque justa aut injusta eorum conditione_;"
which he borowed [Transcriber's Note: borrowed] in part from
the "_Theotimus, seu de tollendis et expurgandis malis
libris_," (Paris, 1549, 8vo.) of Gabriel PUHTHERB. Of these
two works, if [Transcriber's Note: it] were difficult to
determine which is preferabl