Catalogue d’un Cabinet de diverses Curiosités… 27 November 1752 and following days

by Daniel Auction Catalogue: Cottin

$1,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Typographic headpiece to recto of leaf Ai. 88, 7, & 4 pp. of ms. notes. 8vo, early 19th-cent. green morocco-backed marbled boards head of spine chipped . Paris: Helle & Glomy, 1752. An uncommon and early sale catalogue, fully priced in a contemporary hand and supplemented with fascinating manuscript notes about the sale and the bidders. Although the collector is not named in print, someone has written down “Mr. Cottin” on the title-page. The

• Binding: Leather

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