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DE BURE, Guillaume François.

Bibliographie Instructive: ou Traité de la Connoissance des Livres Rares & Singuliers...

Nine vols. 8vo, cont. mottled calf, spines gilt, red & green morocco lettering pieces on spines. Paris: G.F. De Bure, 1763-69 [bound with]: [--]Lettre a M.*** servant de Réponse à une Critique de la Bibliographie Instructive, insérée dans le premier Volume de mois de Juillet 1763, du Journal de Trèvoux, page 1617. 80 pp. 8vo. [Paris: 1763]. I. First edition of "the best of the eighteenth-century rare book bibliographies, important for the new classification scheme employed and for the extensive bibliographical data and notes. It is here that the Gutenberg Bible ('Bible Mazarine') is identified and first described. De Bure was the first in a long tradition of French scholar-booksellers."-Grolier Club, Bibliography, 107. Vols. VIII and IX are entitled Supplement a la Bibliographie Instructive, ou Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat. This is the auction catalogue, dated 1769, of Gaignat's great collection. Gaignat (1697-1768), acquired the choicest incunabula in the De Boze library and had many other notable books. A tenth volume -- an index -- was published in 1782 and is, as almost always, not present. II. First edition and very rare. Mercier (1734-99), abbot at Saint Léger and a well-known bibliographer and librarian, published three letters in 1763 in the Journal de Trévoux attacking the first volume of De Bure's monumental Bibliographie Instructive for alleged errors of fact. In this pamphlet, one of two that De Bure wrote to defend himself, he launches a point-by-point counter-offensive. A very attractive set in matching bindings. De Bure: "une production tout à fait neuve et assez remarquable à l'époque où elle parut: aujourd'hui même elle peut encore être consultée utilement pour plusieurs articles qui n'ont pas été décrits autre part avec autant de détails que là. Ce catalogue donne d'ailleurs une idée exacte du goût qui dominait alors parmi les amateurs de livres rares et précieux."-Brunet, II, 552-53. Petzholdt, pp. 81-83. Gaignat: Taylor, Book Catalogues, pp. 8 & 242. II. Brunet, II, 553.

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