Supplement a la Bibliographie Instructive, ou Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de feu M. Louis...
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 (Gaignat had spent 279,381 livres to form the library), with La Vallière the most important buyer, spending between 80 and 90,000 livres. The books were very elaborately catalogued by... More