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AUROUX, N. 17th cent.

A. AVELINE _Sculp._

On the armorial ex-libris of Carolus de Brosses, Comes Tornaci, Baro Montis, etc., with the motto ”_Homunculi quanti sunt_.” 18th cent.

M. Poulet-Mala.s.sis devotes considerable s.p.a.ce to this very little man--Charles de Brosses--and his quarrel with Voltaire. De Brosses had two other armorial book-plates engraved by Durand, from which the unfortunate motto was omitted.

Charles de Brosses, Comte de Tournay, was born in Dijon in 1709, and died in Paris in 1777. He was a true bibliophile, and his books were sumptuously bound in morocco stamped with his arms--_azure three trefoils or_.

They were sold in Dijon in 1778. See an ill.u.s.trated article on his ex-libris in ”Les Archives de la Societe Francaise,” Jany., 1896.

AVISSE _fecit_. (Signature indistinct.)

Josephi Xaupi, 1750 and 1765.

Ecclesiastical.

AVRIL, PAUL. Modern.

Philippe Gille.

Ex-Libris H. S. Ashbee. 1890.

Portrait rebus plate.

Ex-Libris Geo. B. de Forest (of New York). Library interior.

A. B. _del._

M. Arthur Benoit, of Berthelming in Alsace, designed several book-plates for himself and for his late brother Mons. Louis Benoit, librarian to the city of Nancy.

These ex-libris contain views of Alsatian buildings and costumes.

Mons. A. Benoit designed a modern plate for himself, copied from a library device of the last century; Motto, ”_Avec le temps_.”

See ”Pet.i.te Revue d'Ex libris Alsaciens,” p. 37.

BACHELEY, _del. et sculp._ 1768.

P. R. Le Cornier de Cideville.

Armorial.

BALTAZARD. 1755.

L. F. BAOUR, _fecit_.

P. L. de Carbon, sen.

Armorial. 18th cent.

BAQUOY, C. 18th cent.

BARBAT, _a Chalons_, 19th cent.

Ex libris C. Remy. Armorial.

Mons. Charles Remy, Membre de l'Academie de Reims, carries the arms of a Chevalier de l'Empire, a t.i.tle granted to his father, the Baron Claude Charles Remy, on April 25, 1811.