A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to Books

by Joseph Sabin

New York: Printed for the Author. M.DCCC.XLVI.

Privately printed, and scarce. A Supplement was subsequently printed in the Literary World, of which twenty-six copies only were separately printed—that being the number of persons who had the politeness to acknowledge the gift of the "Essay."

Ludewig. The Literature of American Aboriginal Languages. By Hermann E. Ludewig. With Additions and Corrections, By Professor Wm. W. Turner. Edited by Nicolas Trübner. 8vo, pp. viii, (1), ix-xxiv, 258.

London: Trübner & Co. MDCCCLVIII.

M^cCulloch (J. R.) The Literature of Political Economy: A Classified Catalogue of select publications in the different departments of that science, with Historical, Critical, and Biographical [sic] Notices. By J. R. M^cCulloch, Esq., ... 8vo, pp. xiii, (I), 407.

London: Longman. MDCCCXLV.

With two indexes, one of authors and the other of works.

Machado (D. B.) Bibliotheca Lusitana Historica, Critica, e Cronologica. Na qual se comprehende a Noticia dos Authores Portuguezes, e das Obras, que compuzeraõ desde o tempo da promulgacaõ da Ley da Graça até o tempo prezente. Offerecida à Augusta Magestade de D. Joaõ v. Nosso Senhor por Diogo Barbosa Machado. 4 vols., folio, pp. (80), 767, Portrait; (2), 927; (2), 799; (6), 725.

Lisboa, Off. de Fonseca. 1741-59.

The extreme rarity of this great work, the highest authority upon Portuguese bibliography, arises from the circumstance that a large proportion of the first three volumes perished by fire at Lisbon in 1755. See Petzholdt, p. 381.