Catalogue des Livres rares, singuliers et très-bien conditionnés, de feu le C. Bonnier, Ministre plénipotentiaire...
iv, 180 pp. 8vo, cont. French red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt frames composed of a diamond & chain roll between two gilt fillets, flat spine in six compartments, the second with title, in the others a large sunburst, dentelles gilt with a lozenge & oval roll depicting emblems “de la Paix de des Arts,” a.e.g. Paris: G. De Bure, An VIII [1800].
A very finely bound copy of the sale catalogue of the library of Bonnier d’Arco (1750-99), an important figure in the French Revolution who was assassinated while head of the French delegation at the Congress of Rastadt... More