1653. 4to. De Venatione et Natura
    Animalium Libri V. ibid, 1653. 3 vol. in 4to.—­tous avec figures
    gravees en bois.  Peut etre dans la Bibl. des Theatres y etoient-ils. 
    Je me recommande toujours a M, Barbier pour la Scala Coeli, in
    folio, pour les Lettres de Rangouge, et pour les autres livres qu’il
    a bien voulu se charger de rechercher pour moy.”  ST. LEGER.

[101] The Abbe Hooke preceded the abbe Le Blond; the late head librarian. 
    The present head librarian M. PETIT RADEL, has given a good account of
    the Mazarine Library in his Recherches sur les Bibliotheques, &c.
    1819, 8vo.; but he has been reproached with a sort of studied omission
    of the name of Liblond—­who, according to a safe and skilful writer,
    may be well considered the SECOND FOUNDER of the Mazarine Library.  The
    Abbe Liblond died at St. Cloud in 1796.  In M. Renouard’s Catalogue of
    his own books, vol. ii. p. 253, an amusing story is told about Hooke’s
    successor, the Abbe Le Blond, and Renouard himself.

[102] Bibl.  Spenceriana, vol. i. p. 3, &c. and page 154 ante.

[103] When Lord Spencer was at Paris in 1819, he told MM.  Petit Radel and
    Thiebaut, who attended him, that it was “the finest copy he had ever
    seen.”  Whereupon, one of these gentlemen wrote with a pencil, in the
    fly-leaf, “Lord Spencer dit que c’est le plus bel exemplaire qu’il ait
    vu.”  And well might his Lordship say so.

[104] Bibliomania, p. 50. Bibliographical Decameron, vol. ii.
    p. 493.

[105] Mons. Petit-Radel has lately (1819) published an interesting octavo
    volume, entitled “Recherches sur les Bibliotheques anciennes et
    modernes,&c. with a “Notice Historique sur la Bibliotheque
    Mazarine:  to which latter is prefixed a plate, containing portraits
    in outline, of Mazarin, Colbert, Naude and Le Blond.”  At the end, is a
    list of the number of volumes in the several public libraries at
    Paris:  from which the following is selected.

ROYAL LIBRARY    Printed Volumes about         350,000
Ditto, as brochures, &c.      350,000
Manuscripts              50,000

LIBRARY OF THE ARSENAL   Printed Volumes         150,000
Manuscripts               5,000

LIBRARY OF ST. GENEVIEVE Printed Volumes         110,000
Manuscripts               2,000

MAZARINE LIBRARY         Printed Volumes          90,000
Manuscripts               3,500

LIBRARY OF THE PREFECTURE
(Hotel de la Ville) Printed Volumes 15,000