Catalogue Des Livres Imprimes Et Des Manuscrits Ainsi Que De Tres Beaux Livres Destampes

by Charles Auction Catalogue Desprez De Boissy

$2,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

4 p.l., 183 pp. 8vo, attractive antique speckled calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Barrois l’aîné, et Fils and Alexandre, 1803. The rare sale catalogue of the library of Charles Desprez de Boissy 1730?-87 , a leading French theater critic of the time. A lawyer to the Paris parlement, he was a member of many scientific and literary societies in France and Italy and the author of highly esteemed

• Binding: Leather

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