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CREVENNA, PIETRO ANTONIO. Catalogue Raisonné de la Collection de Livres de M. Pierre Antoine Crevenna, Négociant à Amsterdam. [2], viii, 149, [1]; [2], 244, [2]; 322, [2]; 327, [1]; 346, [2]; [4], 336, [4] pages, including single leaf of errata at end of Volumes 2, 3, and 5, and 2 leaves of errata at end of Volume 6; Volumes 1 and 2 possibly lack half-titles. 6 volumes. 4to, modern 1/2 calf, Volume 3 raised bands scuffed; occasional light foxing, contemporary booklabel or stamp in blank lower margin of titles. [Amsterdam], 1776
first edition of the catalogue of a major collection of early printing assembled by an Italian merchant (d. 1792) residing in Amsterdam; second issue of Volume 1, with titles dated 1776 instead of 1775. "The catalogue lists more than a thousand incunabula and was important for that reason in a time before the appearance of larger and better bibliographies" (Taylor). Bogeng, I, 219-220, and III, 106; Taylor, Book Catalogues, pages 8 and 238.
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