(AUCTION CATALOGUE: BOURRET).

Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de feu Monsieur Bourret, ancien Intendant de la Principauté de Neuf-Chastel & de Vallengin, en Suisse. Dont la Vente se fera en détail au plus offrant & dernier encherisseur, le Lundy 18. Juillet 1735. & jours suivans…

[iii]- xvi, 523 pp. 12mo, cont. mottled sheep (well-rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down), on lower cover the gilt coat-of-arms of the Comtesse d’Ons-en-Bray, née Princesse de Gallifat-Martigues, wife of Louis-Léon Pajot, Comte d’Ons-en-Bray (see OHDR 150 & Rietstap), surmounted by a princely coronet, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: J. Boudot & J. Guerin, 1735.

An uncommon auction catalogue, priced throughout in a contemporary hand. The library was a large one (6496 lots) and contained some outstanding 16th- and 17th-century rarities as well as strong collections in history, belles-lettres, numismatics, music, and the sciences (especially mineralogy).

Very good copy. Half-title lacking. The placement of the arms on the lower cover only is most unusual.

❧ Bléchet, p. 91. Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Books Auctions…1643-1830, 39. Peignot, p. 83. Pollard & Ehrman no. 274.

Price: $3,500.00

Item ID: 1921