(AUCTION CATALOGUE: ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, Abraham-Hyacinthe).

Catalogue des Livres de M. A.H. Anquetil-Duperron; Voyageur aux Grandes Indes...

dont la vente se fera...24 septembre 1805, et jours suivans... 2 p.l., iv, 4, [v]-viii, 236 pp. 8vo, orig. wrappers (joints a little frayed), uncut. Paris: chez Veuve Tilliard et Fils, 1805. The very uncommon auction catalogue of the library of Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805), French orientalist. His library, numbering 1600 lots, contained many rare books printed in India, China, and elsewhere in the Orient. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand. Anquetil-Duperron developed at an early age a taste for Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and other languages of the East. He found passage to Pondicherry in 1755 and he remained in the Orient for several years, until he returned to Paris in 1762, via London and Oxford. He spent the rest of his life editing and publishing the manuscripts which he had purchased during his travels to India. Nice copy in original state. With the uncommon four-page sale schedule. ❧ Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions...1643-1830, 458. Peignot, p. 77–“Ce catalogue est curieux, surtout pour les livres en langues étrangères. Les ouvrages, quoique peu soignés quant à la reliure, ont été vendus à prix exorbitants.”

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