Supplement A La Bibliographie Instructive Ou Catalogue Des Livres Du Cabinet De Feu M Louis Jean

by Auction Catalogue Gaignat

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

xxxix, 1 , 621 pp.; 491, 1 pp. Two vols. Large 4to, cont. English blue-grey boards, carefully rebacked with white paper, orig. manuscript labels laid-down on spines, uncut. Paris: De Bure, 1769. A fine large paper set of the auction catalogue of Gaignat’s magnificent library, comprising 3542 lots and including all of De Boze’s incunabula. This was one of the most important of the 18th-century sale catalogues. The sale brought 257,597 livres

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