?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
LA VALLIÈRE, LOUIS-CÉSAR, Duc de. Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. le Duc de la Vallière . . . Première Partie. Engraved portrait of La Vallière and 5 folding plates. [4], lxiv [i. e., lxvi], 71, [1], 602; [4], 758; [4], 388, 376, 92, 90 pages, including half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, modern boards with typewritten paper lettering pieces; occasional toning, old institutional stamp on title and last page in each volume. Paris: Guillaume de Bure, fils aîné, 1783
5668 lots. Priced in ink throughout. First part of the sale of the pre-eminent French private library of the 18th century; with the supplement, without the printed price list and leaf of publisher's notices. The second part, running to over 26,000 lots catalogued in 6 volumes, was held the following year. Taylor, Book Catalogues, page 248. Pollard & Ehrman 297.
