BEUGHEM, Cornelius à.

Incunabula Typographiae sive Catalogus Librorum Scriptorumque proximis ab inventione Typographiae annis, usque ad Annum Christi M.D. inclusive, in quavis lingua editorum...

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6 p.l., 191 pp. 12mo, cont. panelled calf (very carefully rebacked preserving the orig. spine). Amsterdam: J. Wolters, 1688. First edition of “apparently the first bibliography of incunables...It extends to 200 pages and describes about 3,000 works, arranged as follows: editions of the Bible; other works, arranged alphabetically by authors; books containing works by several authors; anonymous works, set out alphabetically by their titles; ancient books of uncertain date; books both anonymous and undated. This compilation is clearly the work of a skilled and experienced bibliographer.”–Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, pp. 35-36. There are about 3000 entries and to each author is added a short biographical note. Beughem (fl. 1678-1710), bookseller and city counselor at Emmerich, was the foremost bibliographer of the 17th century. Fine copy from the library of Eric H.L. Sexton, the noted collector of incunabula. ❧Grolier Club, Bibliography, 85–“The first general bibliography of fifteenth-century books. Beughem applies for the first time the word ‘incunabulum,’...to the books themselves.”

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