[86] Theodore Besterman estimates the number at 3000, but this must include the biographies. A generous guess would be 1500.
[87] See A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, A Short-Title Catalogue (London, 1926), No. 13582. Teissier calls him Hugo Hollandus for some reason. Since the Auctuarium is arranged according to first names, this is an annoying mistake.
[88] Ioannis Rossi Antiquarii Warwicensis historia Regum Angliae. E codice MS. in Bibliotheca Bodleiana descripsit, notisque & indice adornauit Thom. Hearne (Oxford, 1716).
[89] The numbers are actually much larger because I have, for convenience, cited either the Catalogus or the Auctuarium as an illustration and the work that I do not cite gives more references in all these categories, except the last.
[90] See Auctuarium, p. 297, citing a book by Christian Serpitius. H. B. Wheatley overlooked it in his excellent study, Of Anagrams (London, 1862).
[91] For references to these books see Theodore Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography (2d ed.; [Oxford] and London, [1936]) and A World Bibliography of Bibliographies (2d ed.; [Oxford] and London, 1947-1949).
[92] For a contemporary reference to the book see Teissier, Auctuarium, p. 53. Beughem made the announcement in his Bibliotheca juridica & politica (Amsterdam, 1680), p. [vii]. The subtitle translated above reads in the original: Enarratio ac plenior Enumeratio, omnium Librorum, Operumque quae sub titulo Bibliothecae, Catalogi, Indicis, Anthenarum &c. hactenus typis prodierunt. I have used a copy of the Bibliotheca juridica in my own library.
[93] See ed. 1664, pp. 21-22, eds. 1672 and 1678, pp. 30-31, ed. 1682, pp. 50-51.
[94] The only parallel that occurs to me is in John Ferguson's book that is discussed below.
[95] The noun "bibliotheca" is to be understood here and in conjunction with the following proper adjectives in his list. By Bibliotheca Augustana Labbé meant the library at Augsburg. At the time when he was writing, several catalogues of manuscripts and books in this library had been published. He could have referred to them by this short title made up for the purpose.