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Laire, François Xavier (1738-1801) Index Librorum ab Inventa Typographia ad Annum 1500.
Sens: apud Viduam et Filium P. Harduini Tarbé, 1791.
First edition, two octavo volumes, some signatures printed on blue paper, bound in contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, rebacked, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
This catalog of the collection of the Archbishop of Sens, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727-1794), is the first catalog of incunabula ever published. The Archbishop owned 1,332 incunabula, four block books, two Gutenberg Bibles, and the 1459 Fust & Schöffer Psalter.
