Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PAPILLON, PHILIBERT. Bibliothèque des Auteurs de Bourgogne. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1. [24], 423, [1]; [2] (of [4]), 359, [1], 13, viii, [2] pages, including half-title in first volume (lacking in the second) and approbation leaf at end. 2 volumes in one. Folio, contemporary mottled sheep gilt with morocco lettering piece, extremities rubbed, bottom of spine chipped; dampstain in lower outer corner of Volume 1 opening leaves, occasional light even browning. Dijon: François Desventes, 1745

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Bio-bibliography of Burgundian authors originally published in 1742. Of Nostradamian interest are the entries on Jean-Aimé de Chavigny (pages 139-42) and Jacques de Jant (pages 333-34) in Volume 1.