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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(FORTSAS HOAX.) [Chalon, Renier-Hubert-Ghislain.] Catalogue d'une très-riche mais peu nombreuse Collection de Livres provenant de la Bibliothèque de feu M.r le Comte J.-N.-A. de Fortsas, dont la Vente se fera à Binche, le 10 Août 1840. 8vo, late 19th-century brown levant by Matthews, conspicuously rebacked retaining original backstrip; marginal stains on title, small LC perforated stamp on next leaf. Bookplates of John Boyd Thacher and Harvard College Library (Greenleaf Bequest, released). Mons: Em. Hoyois, [1840s?]
Second(?) edition of a spurious auction catalogue of fictitious rarities from a non-existent library, "the greatest of book hoaxes" (Bibliotheca Chimaerica, pages 2-3); with "rue" at end of line 7 on title. Klinefelter, page 77.
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