es livres de M. Mel de Saint
Ceran._ Paris, 1780, 8vo., again in 1791, 8vo. These
catalogues were compiled by De Bure, and are carefully
executed. Some of the books noticed in them are sufficiently
curious and rare.----CLEMENTINO-VATICANA. _Bibliotheca
Orientalis Clementino Vaticana, in qua manuscriptos codices
Orientalium Linguarum recensuit Joseph Simonius Assemanus_,
Romae, 1719. Folio, four vols. Asseman's son compiled an
excellent catalogue of the Oriental MSS. in the
Medico-Laurentian library; but this work of the father is
more curious and elaborate. Whenever a few half-guineas can
procure it, let the country-settled philologist send his
"henchman" to fly for it!--"Speed, Malise, speed." But alas!
Santander tells us that copies of it are rare. _Cat. de
Santander_, vol. iv., no. 6287.----COLBERT. _Bibliotheca
Colbertina: seu Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae quae fuit
primum J.B. Colbert, deinde J.B. Colbert (fil) postea J.
Nic. Colbert, ac demum C.L. Colbert._ Parisiis, 1728, 8vo.,
three vols. The preface to this valuable catalogue (executed
by Martin) gives us a compressed, but sufficiently
perspicuous, account of the auspices under which such an
extensive and magnificent collection was assembled and
arranged. It contains not fewer than 18,219 articles; being
perhaps 60,000 volumes. The celebrated Baluze was the
librarian during the life of the former branches of the
Colbert family; a family which, if nothing remained to
perpetuate their fame but this costly monument of literary
enterprise, will live in the grateful remembrance of
posterity--but it wants not even such a splendid memorial!
The lover of fine and curious books will always open the
volumes of the COLBERT CATALOGUE with a zest which none but
a thorough bred bibliomaniac can ever hope to
enjoy.----CONSEIL D'ETAT. _Catalogue des livres de la
Bibliotheque du Conseil d'Etat (par M. Barbier,
Bibliothecaire du Conseil d'Etat)._ Paris, an. xi. (1802),
folio. "This catalogue is most superbly executed. The
richness of the materials of which it is composed, the fine
order of its arrangement, and the skilful researches
exhibited in it relating to anonymous authors, are worthy of
the typographical luxury of the national press, from which
this curious work was put f