The Saturnian Kingdoms Converted into the Golden Age

TO THE READER

catalogues the Latin word "Catalogos" begins with the catchword "Cata-" found on the preceding page also of the libra-
ries which are more fre-
quently sold in Paris, This refers to the common 18th-century practice of publishing catalogues for the auction of private estate libraries I
had pored through six hundred, original: "sexcentos"; a number often used in Latin as a figure of speech for "countless" or "an enormous amount" nor
had the desired title met
my eyes even once.
Finally, noticing
that Abbot Lenglet
Dufresnoy, in his [catalogue]
of Hermetic writers original: "Hermeticorum scriptorum"; referring to authors of alchemical and mystical works. Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy (1674–1755) was a famous French scholar who published a comprehensive bibliography of these subjects in 1742.