Accession number
PML 128201.1-34
Published
[France] : [various publishers], 1729-1749.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 1999.
Notes
Assortment of publishers' and booksellers' catalogues chiefly from France, bound together in the 18th century.
Description
34 items ; 25 cm or smaller
Inscriptions/Markings
Some contemporary marks and annotations in ink, chiefly in the catalogues by Bruyset, Lottin, Quillaua, Rollin, and Debure.
Provenance
Hans P. Kraus, private collection and was offered by us in our cat. 184 [Nov. 1990], lot 219, $8500; Colin Franklin; Bennett Gilbert, who offered it at the London ABA fair in 1999 (at £12,500).
Summary
Publishers and booksellers represented: Jean van Duren, les frères Bruyset, Jacques-François Collombat, Paulus-Du-Mesnil, Antoine-Claude Briasson, Philippe Nicolas Lottin, Desaint & Saillant, Gabriel-François Quillau, Étienne-Franc̨ois Savoye, Louis-Étienne Ganeau, Jacques Rolin, Claude Lamesle, la Veuve Estienne et fils, Benoist Audran, Theodore Le Gras, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, Antoine Boudet, Jean Barbou, chez [Laurent] Durand, Charles Robustel, Louis Genneau, Charles-Antoine Jombert, la Veuve de Denis-Antoine Pierres, Guillaume Desprez & Pierre-Guillaume Cavelier, Franc̨ois Mathey, Jean-Baptiste Coignard & Antoine Boudet, J.H. Butard, Jean Debure, Gabriel Martin, Jean Villette.
Binding
Limp vellum.
Classification
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Department