Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu Mr. de Sarolea, Seigneur du Ban de...
3 p.l., 371 pp. 8vo, 19th-cent. calf-backed marbled boards (minor foxing & spotting), entirely uncut. Liège: S. Dauvrain, 1785.
An important first in catalogues: this is the first auction catalogue to provide collations; it is very rare. The catalogue was compiled by Jean Noël Paquot (1722-1803), scholar, professor of Hebrew, and librarian at the University of Louvain and later to the duc d’Arenberg. Paquot provides uncommonly long (and accurate) title transcriptions, authors’ names for anonymous works, critical annotations, and full pagination collations with lists of contents.
Saroléa, the wealthy canon of the Liège cathedral, was close to many members of... More