Medical; Child's Coffee-house, William Cooper. James Chamberlain, fellow of St. John's, Cambridge; in Cook's-row, Sturbridge fair, Millington. Library of Arthur Earl of Anglesey *, 1686. Mr. Sheppard of London, and another Gentleman; Thomas Ward, Upholsterer. 1686-7, Feb. 28. Books in quires; Millington. French, of Charles Mearne, late Bookseller to the King; King's-arms, Charing Cross, William Cooper. Bibliotheca cujusdam Viri literati; Ditto, Pelican, Little-Britain. Charles Mearne's English books; Millington, Richard's Coffee-house. Auction at Thomas Bowman's, Bookseller; Oxford. Jer. Copping, of Sion College, and Anscel Beaumont, esq. Jonathan's Coffee-house. 1687. The Library of Robert Scott, Bookseller, and Bibliotheca Jacombiana §, by Millington. Vendible and useful English and Latin Books, on most subjects, and in all volumes, sold by Auction 1688-9, at the Three Half Moons, St. Paul's Churchyard. Tooker's Catalogue of William Miller's ¶ famous Collection of Pamphlets to this day, no date. * "Bibliotheca Angleseiana, sive Catalogus Variorum Librorum in quâvis Linguâ & Facultate insignium: quos cum ingenti sumptu & summâ diligentiâ sibi procuravit Honoratissimus Arthur Comes d'Anglesey, Privati olim Sigilli Custos, & Carolo Secundo à Secretioribus Conciliis. Quorum Auctio habebitur Londini, in ædibus Nigri Cygni, ex adverso Australis Porticus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Pauline, in Cœmiterio D. Paul. 25 die Octob. 1686. Per Thomam Philippum, Generosum, olim Economum prædicto Comiti. 1686." 4to, pp. 98 and 76. Price 6d. † Son, probably, of Samuel Mearne; see p. 598. Of Little Britain. See vol. I. p. 423. § The Rev. Dr. Thomas Jacomb, a respectable Nonconformist Divine, died March 27, 1687; and left a valuable Library, in all parts of Learning, which sold for 13007. These Catalogues are all in quarto; the different Sciences form distinct numbers, and sometimes distinct pages. ¶"His person was tall and slender; he had a graceful aspect (neither stern nor effeminate); his eyes were smiling and lively; It is not to be doubted that from hence to the present year might be deduced a regular series of both sorts, distributing capital libraries of Books and MSS. among a succession of owners. I can begin only with the Library of Mr. Charles Bernard, 1710-11; after which follows that of Dr. Nehemiah Grew, 1712, the title of which is too curious not to be inserted at large: "A Catalogue of Part of the Library of that late eminent Nehemiah Grew, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the College of Physicians; containing a curious Collection of many valuable Books, in Physick, Divinity, and History, together with Variety of uncommon stitched Pamphlets and his complexion was of a honey colour, and he breathed as if he had run a race. The figure and symmetry of his face exactly proportionable. He had a soft voice, and a very obliging tongue. He was of the sect of the Peripatetics, for he walked every week to Hampstead. He was very moderate in his eating, drinking, and sleeping, and was blessed with a great memory, which he employed for the good of the publick; for he had the largest collection of stitched books of any man in the world, and could furnish the Clergy (at a dead lift) with a printed sermon on any text or occasion. His death was a public loss, and will never be repaired unless by his ingenious son-in-law, Mr. William Laycock, who, I hear, is making a general collection of stitched books; and as Mr. Miller's stock was all put into his hands, (perhaps) he is the fittest man in London to perfect such a useful undertaking." Dunton, p. 289. * Serjeant Surgeon to Queen Anne (see vol. IV. p. 104). The Library of Dr. Francis Bernard, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was sold by auction in 1698. See the very curious advertisement to his Catalogue in Dibdin's Bibliomania, p. 418.-He was buried at St. - Botolph's, Aldersgate, with the following epitaph: "Heic juxta situs est Franciscus Bernardus, M. D. egregium sui seculi Decus; hujus Civitatis Delicia nuper, nunc Desiderium: quippe quæ suspexit vivum, plorat Mortuum; eum utique optimum & in omni re literariâ versatissimum, quem summa & penè certa Artis medicæ scientia, undique comprobata feliciter, meritò commendavit omnibus. Obiit septuagenarius, Feb. 9, 1697-8. Conjunx morens posuit. And also Anne, his wife, died April 12, 1708." Of a Dr. Edward Bernard, see vol. I. pp. 16. 702. MSS. MSS. Also a Collection of STONES, engraved or cut out, antient, and set in Gold or Silver, for the Use of Rings and Seals. Which will begin to be sold, the fair Way (the Price to be put in each Book, and on every Seal and Ring), on Monday next, being the 23d of this, instant June, at the Rose-tavern, without Temple-bar, from Nine O'Clock in the Morning till Eight at Night. The Sale to continue Two Days, and no longer. Catalogues may be had at Mr. Strachan's in Cornhill, Mr. Clement's in St. Paul's Church yard, Mr. Brown's without Temple-bar, Booksellers, and at the Place. of Sale, where written Catalogues of the whole may be seen." There are 156 Lots of "Libri Theologici, Medici, &c. Græcè, Latinè, et Anglicè, Folio," many with g.b. i.e. gilt backs. "With many others not here inserted." 1712 Dr. Burrell of Sudbury, Edward Earl of Jersey*, and Mr. Robert Stretton, by T. Ballard; Remains of Sir J. Chardin's library, by James Levi, at Tom's Coffee-house, St. Martin's-lane. 1714 Dr. John Postlethwaite, Head-master of St. Paul's-school, by T. Ballard. 1714-15 Thomas Britton, Smallcoal-man. From hence we may descend down the ladder of Learning by rounds, inscribed with the names of 1721 Thomas Rawlinson, 1733-4. 1722 Sir Robert Sibbald, at Edinburgh. 1725-6 John Bridges, esq. 1727 Sir Philip Sydenham. * Sir Edward Villiers, created Viscount and 'Baron Villiers in 1691, and earl of Jersey in 1697, possessed a valuable Library, collected in his various public employments. He was some time one of the Lords Justices in Ireland; Master of the Horse to Queen Mary; and Ambassador, first, to the States General, and afterwards to France. He was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Household in 1702; and died Aug. 26, 1711. † Of whom see a good article in Dibdin's Bibliomania, p. 438. + See vol. V. . p. 489. This Catalogue has a curious engraved frontispicce of a tree gut down and dismembring, with this motto: Δρυός πεσέσης πας ανήρ ξυλευῖαι, 1728 Dr. Woodward. 1729 Sir Richard Gibbs. 1730 Richard Hutton, esq.; Rev. Thomas Kimpson; Richard Powell, esq.; Robert Gray, M. D.; Hon. Samuel Molyneux; John Lingard, esq. Common Serjeant of the City of London; Edward Broome, esq.; John Birch, M. D.; John Coleman, esq. (sold by Herman Noorthouck, at his shop in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden; whose own stock in trade was sold that year by Christopher Bateman); William Hewer, esq.; Thomas Herbert, M. D.; John Hancocke, D. D. (sold by C. Davis); the stock in trade of J. Woodman and D. Lyon (sold by Christopher Bateman). 1730-1 Peter Le Neve, Anthony Collins. 1731 T. Jeff, Lewis Vaslet *, Master of Fulham school, by Ballard. Mrs. Oldfield, Feb. 9, 1731-2. 1732 T. Granger, Rev. Robert Kilburn, LL. D. Prebendary of St. Paul's, Rev. Dr. Marshall, Stephen Hall, M. D. Mr. Benjamin Aycrig, by Noorthouck. 1733 Philip, the eccentric Duke of Wharton (who died May 31, 1731); Robert Smith, D. D. Barton Booth, esq. 1734 William Earl of Yarmouth (who died in 1732), Robert Stephens, esq. Hugh Chamberlen, M. D. Bp. Sydali, Mr. Richardson, Apothecary. 1735 Theocharis Dadichi, John Eaton, Dr. Foulkes, John White of Ipswich, James Tyrrell, esq. 1735-6 Thomas Hearne. 1726-7 Thomas Sclater Bacon. 1742 Walter Clavell. 1745-6 James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos. 1746 Ireton Cromwell, 1747 Sir Joseph Jekyll, and the Earl of Oxford. 1748 Rev. John Lewis, the Historian of Margate. 1748 Michael Maittaire. He has a tomb-stone in Fulham church-yard. See Lysons, vol. II p. 375. + The Historiographer; of whom sce memoirs in vol. IÏ. p. 51. Maittaire's collection must have been uncommonly nume. and of their intrinsic value the reader will best judge by rous; the 1749 George Holmes. 1754 Dr. Mead *. 1756 Martin Folkes, Esq. and Dr. Richard Raw linson. 1757 Sir Julius Caesar's MSS. Dr. Derham. 1758 Edmund Calamy. 1759 Professor Ward §. 1762 Dr. Thomas Hayter, Bishop of London, 1763 Dr. Brackenridge, Lord Granville. 1764 Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, Clarendon MSS, John Hutton. 1765 Sir Edward Simpson, Dr. Letherland, R. Widmore, Earl of Macclesfield, Dean Townsend. the following extract from the Advertisement,' by Cock the auctioneer, at the back of the title-page: "Though the books, in their present condition, make not the most ostentatious appearance, yet, like the late worthy possessor of them, however plain their outside may be, they contain within an invaluable treasure of ingenuity and learning. In fine, this is (after fifty years diligent search and labour in collecting) the entire library of Mr. Maittaire; whose judgment in the choice of books, as it ever was confessed, so are they, undoubtedly, far beyond whatever I can attempt to say in their praise. In exhibiting them thus to the publick, I comply with the will of my deceased friend; and in printing the Catalogue from his own copy just as he left it (though by so doing it is the more voluminous) I had an opportunity not only of doing the justice I owe to his me mory, but also of gratifying the curious." * Of whom see memoirs, vol. VI. p. 212.-I have Mr. Bowyer's copy of all Dr. Mead's Catalogues, with the prices marked at the time of sale. + Of whom see memoirs, vol. II. p. 578. See memoirs of him, vol. V. p. 489. § Of whom see memoirs, vol. V. p. 517. This learned Divine has been noticed in vol. II. p. 227. He was a laborious searcher into antient Records; and, from his appointment of Librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Westminter, had peculiar opportunities of indulging his favourite pursuit; which stamps an authenticity on the History of Westminster Abbey, which he published in 1751, and in which is inserted "An Historical and Architectural Account of the Abbey, and of the Repairs, in a Letter from Sir Christopher Wren to Bishop Atterbury, principal Commissioner for them, about 1714," with additional notes by Mr. Widmore.-In the following year he meditated another work, which he thus noticed in a letter to Dr. "There is among the MSS. at the HeDucarel, March 3, 1752, ralds' Office, No. 5531 (according to Bernard's Catalogue of the MSS. |