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Limited to 200 Copies
(BUTURLIN, Dimitrii Petrovich, Graf). Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de son Exc. M. le Comte D. Boutourlin. Engraved arms on title. [482] pp. 8vo, attractive modern black morocco-backed marbled boards. Florence: [Privately Printed], 1831.
Limited to 200 copies only, privately printed. Buturlin (1763-1829), Russian soldier, military historian, politician, librarian of the Imperial Russian Library, and one of the most outstanding book collectors of 19th century Russia, had formed earlier an important library but it was unfortunately destroyed during the burning of Moscow in 1812. The present catalogue describes Buturlin's very large second collection, formed during his retirement in Florence, which Brunet describes as being superior to the first. It contained 244 important early MSS., 964 15th-century books (many of which were unrecorded), a very complete Bodoni collection, and other outstanding later items. 7929 items in all are described. Edited by E.L.J.E. Audin. Fine copy.
2750.0000