Bibliothecae Marii Compagnonii Marefusci S.R.E. Cardinalis Catalogus.
2 p.l., 232 pp. Small 4to, cont. marbled boards (some wear, title a little soiled & dampstained), orig. printed label on spine. Rome: J.A. Monaldini, 1786.
A very rare and early Italian catalogue (I believe it to be an auction catalogue); “there were very few auctions in Italy before the nineteenth century, where inventory sales at fixed prices seem to have been the normal custom.”–Pollard & Ehrman, p. 204–(Pollard thinks this catalogue is an inventory catalogue). This catalogue has far greater characteristics of auction catalogues than inventory catalogues: each item is numbered, it is not arranged by shelf, and there are no... More