?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
LA VALLIÈRE, LOUIS-CÉSAR, Duc de. Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. le Duc de la Vallière . . . par Guillaume de Bure, fils aîné. 6 engraved plates. Half-titles. 3 volumes * Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. le Duc de la Vallière. Seconde Partie, disposée par Jean-Luc Nyon l'Aîné. Half-titles. 6 volumes. Together, 9 volumes. 8vo, uniform contemporary calf with red and black morocco lettering pieces, spine ends chipped, joints cracked or starting, few lettering pieces off; generally quite clean internally. Paris, 1783; 1788
5668 and 26,537 lots, respectively. The pre-eminent French private library of the 18th century. The first catalogue has the supplement, price list, and leaf with publisher's notices bound at end of Volume 3; the second catalogue is the second issue, with titles dated 1788 instead of 1784. "The first catalogue contained manuscripts and noteworthy incunabula, and the second books. The manuscripts constitute an amazing collection of early French poetry and romances . . . the books listed in the second catalogue passed through the libraries of the Marquis de Paulmy and the Comte d'Artois into the Arsenal" (Taylor). Jacques-Charles Brunet excerpted many of the descriptions for his Manuel du Libraire. Taylor, Book Catalogues, page 248. Pollard & Ehrman 297 (first catalogue only, lacking the supplement, price list, and leaf of notes).
Exhibition Hours
Exhibition Hours
Aliquam vulputate ornare congue. Vestibulum maximus, libero in placerat faucibus, risus nisl molestie massa, ut maximus metus lectus vel lorem.
