Catalogue d’une riche Collection de Tableaux… 21 April 1817 & following days

by Bernardus Ocke

$750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

2 p.l., 60 pp. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, stitched. Leyden: van Baalen, 1817. Scarce French edition of a Dutch auction catalogue; we find only two copies in North American libraries. Ocke was a pastor in Leiden and not much is known about his collecting, but it amounted to an impressive and choice collection. 180 pictures and six books are listed in the catalogue. Near fine copy; tape repairs to head and tail of spine. From the

• Binding: Wrappers

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