(AUCTION CATALOGUE: CROZAT, Joseph Antoine, Marquis de Th...

Catalogue des Livres de Monsieur le President Crozat de Tugny.

Dont la Vente qui se fera au commencement du mois d’Août 1751… xvi, 472 pp. 8vo, cont. calf (corners & head of spine very expertly repaired), arms in gilt on both covers of Louis-Hyacinthe Boyer de Crémilles (Olivier pl. 2147), spine gilt, brown morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Thiboust, 1751. The uncommon auction catalogue of the library of Joseph Antoine Crozat, Marquis de Thugny (1696-1751). Crozat was the best known member of a family who were prominent French financiers and art collectors. The second son of “the richest man in France,” he formed one of the most precious collections of paintings, statues, drawings, and prints of the time, housed on the Place Vendôme. His library contained an equally rich assemblage of books relating to the fine arts as well as Italian books. This catalogue, describing all the books (4972 lots), also lists 30 lots of prints. Boyer (1700-68), a high military official and at one time minister of war, must have formed a large library as Guigard (II, p. 88) states that his arms are “très commune.” Fine and handsome copy, priced throughout in a contemporary hand. ❧ Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions...1643-1830, 91. Guigard, II, pp. 169-70. Peignot, p. 93.

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