9. The Same: [Of Rawlinson's Manuscripts] By the same. March 1733-4. 800 Numbers.
10. Picturæ Rawlinsonianæ. April, 1734. 117 Articles.
At the end, it would seem that a catalogue of his prints, and MSS. missing in the last sale, were to be published the ensuing winter.
N.B. The black-letter books are catalogued in the Gothic letter.
[36] "Bibliothecæ Bridgesianæ Catalogus: or, A Catalogue of the Entire Library of John Bridges, late of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., &c., which will begin to be sold, by Auction, on Monday the seventh day of February, 1725-6, at his chambers in Lincoln's Inn, No. 6."
From a priced copy of this sale catalogue, in my possession, once belonging to Nourse, the bookseller in the Strand, I find that the following was the produce of the sale:
| The Amount of the books | £3730 | 0 | 0 |
| Prints and books of Prints | 394 | 17 | 6 |
| Total Amount of the Sale | £4124 | 17 | 6 |
Two different catalogues of this valuable collection of books were printed. The one was analysed, or a catalogue raisonné; to which was prefixed a print of a Grecian portico, &c., with ornaments and statues: the other (expressly for the sale) was an indigested and extremely confused one—to which was prefixed a print, designed and engraved by A. Motte, of an oak felled, with a number of men cutting down and carrying away its branches; illustrative of the following Greek motto inscribed on a scroll above—Δρυὸς πεσοὺσης πᾶς ἀνὴρ ξυλευεταὶ: "An affecting memento (says Mr. Nichols, very justly, in his Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 557) to the collectors of great libraries, who cannot, or do not, leave them to some public accessible repository."
[37] In the year 1730-1, there was sold by auction, at St. Paul's Coffee-house, in St. Paul's Church-yard (beginning every evening at five o'clock), the library of the celebrated Free-Thinker,
Anthony Collins, Esq.