-LAMOIGNON. _Catalogue des Livres Imprimes et
manuscrits de la Bibliotheque de M. le President de
Lamoignon (redige par L. Fr. Delatour) avec une table des
auteurs, et des anonymes._ Paris, 1770, fol. The
bibliographer has only to hear Peignot speak in his own
language, and he will not long hesitate about the price to
be given for so precious [Transcriber's Note: 'a' missing in
original] volume: "Catalogue fort rare, tire a QUINZE
EXEMPLAIRES seulement, sur du papier de coton fabrique, par
singularite, a Angouleme." Mr. Harris, of the Royal
Institution, possesses a copy of it, bound in
orange-coloured Morocco, which was presented to him by Mr.
Payne; and, as Alexander placed his beloved Homer--so does
he this catalogue--uner [Transcriber's Note: under] his
pillow "quand il vent se reposer--a cause des songes
agreables qu'il doit inspirer." This beautiful volume, which
was printed for Lamoignon's own convenience, in supplemental
parts, does not, however, contain Baillet's interesting
Latin prefece, which may be seen in the _Jugemens des
Savans_, vol. [Transcriber's Note: volume number missing in
original] pt. ii., p. 140, ed. 1725.----LAMOIGNON. _Des
Livres de la Bibliotheque de feu M. de Lamoignon, Garde de
Sceaux de France._ Paris, 1791, 8vo., 3 vols. These volumes
contain the sale catalogue of Lamoignon's books as they were
purchased by Mr. T. Payne, the bookseller. Like the great
libraries of Crevenna and Pinelli, this immense collection
(with the exception of the works upon French jurisprudence)
has been dissipated by public sale. It yet delights Mr.
Payne to think and to talk of the many thousand volumes
which were bound in Morocco, or Russia, or
white-calf-leather, "with gilt on the edges"--which this
extraordinary family of book-collectors had amassed with so
much care and assiduity. The preface gives us a short, but
pleasing, account of the bibliomanical spirit of Lamoignon's
father-in-law, Monsieur Berryer; who spent between thirty
and forty years in enriching this collection with all the
choice, beautiful, and extraordinary copies of works which,
from his ministerial situation, and the exertions of his
book-friends, it was possible to obtain. M. Berryer died in
1762, and his son-in-law in 1789.----LAMOIGNON. _Des Liv