or at book-auctions. 5. _Bibliotheca
Latina Mediae et Infimae Aetatis, &c._, Leipsic, 1734, 6 vols.
8vo.--again, with Schoettgenius's supplement, in 1754, 4to.,
6 vols. in 3. This latter is in every respect the best
edition of a work which is absolutely indispensable to the
philologist. A very excellent synopsis or critical account
of Fabricius's works was published at Ams., 1738, in 4to.,
which the student should procure. Let me here recommend the
_Historia Bibliothecae Fabricianae_, compiled by JOHN
FABRICIUS, 1717-24, 6 vols. 4to., as a necessary and
interesting supplement to the preceding works of John Albert
Fabricius. I have often gleaned some curious bibliographical
intelligence from its copious pages. The reader may consult
_Bibl. Crevenn._, vol. v., 272-3.]

[Footnote 134: He is noticed here only as the author of
"_Idea Bibliothecae Publicae secundum classes scientiarum
ordinandae, fusior et contractior_," and of the "_Scriptores
Rerum Brunswicarum_," Hanov., 1707, fol., 3 vols. "The
antiquarian, who blushes at his alliance with Thomas Hearne,
will feel his profession ennobled by the name of LEIBNITZ.
That extraordinary genius embraced and improved the whole
circle of human science; and, after wrestling with Newton
and Clark in the sublime regions of geometry and
metaphysics, he could descend upon earth to examine the
uncouth characters and barbarous Latin of a chronicle or
charter." Gibbon: _Post. Works_, vol. ii., 712. Consult also
_Mem. de l'Inst._, vol. v., 648.]

[Footnote 135: I will not pretend to enumerate all the
learned works of BURCHARD GOTTHLIEB STRUVIUS. His
"_Bibliotheca Librorum Rariorum_" was published in 1719,
4to. The first edition of the _Bibliotheca Historica_
appeared as early as 1705: a very valuable one was published
by Buder, in 1740, 2 vols.: but the last, and by far the
most copious and valuable, is that which exhibits the joint
editorial labours of BUDER and MEUSEL, in eleven octavo
volumes, 1782, 1802--though I believe it does not contain
every thing which may be found in the edition of the _Bibl.
Hist. Selecta_, by Jugler, 1754, three vols. 8vo.: vide pp.
iv. and vii. of the preface of Meusel's edition. The _Bibl.
Hist. Select._, by Jugler, was formerly published under the
title of