Mar 13, 2003 - Sale 1963

Sale 1963 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GAIGNAT, LOUIS-JEAN. Supplément à la Bibliographie Instructive; ou, Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de feu M. Louis-Jean Gaignat . . . Disposé & mis en Ordre par Guill. François De Bure le jeune. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, minor wear to spine ends and cover corners. Paris: Guillaume François De Bure le jeune, 1769

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3542 lots. Priced in ink throughout. Gaignat's collection included the choicest incunabula from the Boze library. This sale catalogue forms Volumes 8 and 9 of De Bure's Bibliographie Instructive, "the best of the eighteenth-century rare book bibliographies, important for a new classification scheme employed and for the extensive bibliographical data and notes"--Grolier/Breslauer & Folter 107. Taylor, Book Catalogues, page 242; Pollard & Ehrman 291 (also page 247).