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Catalogue des livres de feue Madame la comtesse de Verruë : dont la vente se sera en détail en son hôtel, ruë du Cherchemidy.

Accession number
PML 199125
Creator
Verrue, Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de, 1670-1736. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkp3twPfmTfRVWXhvfg8C
Published
Ce catalogue se distribuë a Paris : Chez Gabriel Martin, ruë Saint Jacques, à l'Etoile, M. DCC. XXXVII. [1737]
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, 2024.
Notes
Signatures: [pi]²; A-Gg⁴.
Description
[4], 240 pages ; 20 cm (8vo in 4s)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary biographical note on Verruë, including the epitaph: "Ci-git, dans une paix profonde, cette dame de volupté, qui, pour la plus grand sûreté, fit son paradis dans ce monde."
Provenance
Paris, École Sainte Geneviève, BDJ, stamp (title page); E. Nourry (Paris), bookseller's label (front pastedown); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Knuf Rare Books on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, April 2024.
Binding
Contemporary French calf over paper boards. Bound with about 32 leaves of blank paper after the text.
Classification
Department