XXVI 
PREFACE TO FIRST SECTION 
those of diiFerent booksellers in Europe; the 
same books bemg constantly on sale in Constan- 
tinople, Smyrna, Damascus, Aleppo, and Grarid 
Cairo; whereas very considerable difference 
may be observed among the collections adver- 
tised for sale in London, Paris, and Vienna. 
Throughout this work, the author, to the 
utmost of his abihty, has derived his information 
from original sources. Upon this account he 
has extended the references, in almost every 
instance, so as to notice the edition cited ; par- 
ticularly where more than one edition has been 
used ; as in the example of the Pahestina lllus- 
Zmia of Hadrian Reland: for a short time he 
consulted the folio copy of that valuable publi- 
cation, as it was printed at Venice in 1/46, in 
the Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum of Ugolini ; 
not having the preceding edition, published, in 
two small quarto volumes, at Utrecht in 1714. 
This last, being afterwards obtained, was occa- 
sionally cited, as more convenient for reference. 
Also, in deriving authorities from Josephus, an 
allusion to two different editions may perhaps 
be noticed; viz. to one printed at Cologne in 
1691, which was consulted in preparing the 
manuscript for the press ; and to another printed 
in Holland, used subsequently, during a revisal 
of the ^vork. These are observations in which 
