(AUCTION CATALOGUE: [GIRARDOT DE PRÉFOND, Paul]).

Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de Mr. G...D...P...

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Par Guillaume-Franç. De Bure, le jeune. 4 p.l. (including the specially printed extra title), lv, [1], 241 pp., & three extra folding leaves (see below). 8vo, fine cont. mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: G.F. De Bure, 1757. A very special copy of one of the choicest and most celebrated collections formed in France during the 18th century; it was excellently compiled by De Bure and has an index. Many of the books and MSS. in the collection were bound by Padeloup in the most luxurious fashion. 1428 lots with nine scientific instruments also sold at the end. Girardot, a timber merchant, on his retirement from business, became depressed. His doctor, Hyacinthe Théodore Baron (1707-87), dean of the medical faculty of Paris and himself an important book collector, advised him to cure his melancholia by forming a library. Our copy is clearly a presentation copy from Girardot to his doctor: it bears Baron’s bookplate as well as the bookplate of Girardot. Additionally, this copy contains, following the regular title-page, another title-page specially printed in red and black with Girardot’s arms. We have never seen another copy with this extra title-page. At the end are three additional folding leaves. The first leaf, printed on the recto only, contains the schedule of the sale (commencing 25 April 1757). The following two leaves belong together: on the recto of the first leaf is printed a continuation of the schedule of the sale (continuing from 9 May 1757). The verso and recto of the next leaf contain descriptions of a further 46 lots not present in the main catalogue. Each lot has been priced in a contemporary hand. Again, we find no record of these two leaves in other copies. Fine copy. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand. ❧ Gustave Brunet, Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique, col. 464–“Collection formée avec beaucoup de goût, reliures fort soignées.” Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions...1643-1830, 135. Guigard, II, p. 235–“Ce catalogue est très estimé.” Peignot, p. 100–“Catalogue très estimé.” Pollard & Ehrman no. 287. Taylor, Book Catalogues, p. 256.

• USD 12,500.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: HillBibl-2088

• Antiquariat: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (USA)