Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Mirabeau l'ainé ... : dont la vente se fera en l'une des salles de l'hôtel de Bullion, rue J.J. Rousseau, le Lundi 9 Janvier 1792 et jours suivans, à quatre heures de relevée.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French |
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A Paris :
Chez Rozet ... [et] Belin ...,
1791.
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| Item Description: | Contains 2,854 entries, priced. Errors in paging: pages 41-48 omitted, 351-352 repeated. Mirabeau's library incorporated [Georges] Buffon's. Includes index. "Between May 1789 and his death in April 1791, the statesman and revolutionary Mirabeau built this 7000-volume library to chart the progress of Man. His great coup was the acquisition of Buffon's library (pages 160-212), including many items annotated by the naturalist. He also owned Montaigne's annotated Odyssey and two hundred twenty-six manuscript facsimiles of 15th- and 16th-century printing types to help identify unsigned early printed books(!). This copy includes the separately published sixty-page author index and the printed list of prices realized (22 pages), obtained by sending the final leaf of the catalog, a coupon, to Belin."--From vendor's description. "Contemporary patterned black paper over boards, gilt spine and red moroco label, lower edges uncut."--From vendor's description. The Cushing Library/Dawson French Collection copy contains sleeve ephemera: vendor's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 4 unnumbered pages, xxvi, 440 (i.e. 434) pages, 4 unnumbered pages, lxi pages ; 20 cm (octavo) |
| Place of Publication: | France -- Paris. |