Signatures: pi², *, a, e, i, A-4H 4I² (-4I2)

5,036 lots

Frontispiece portrait; engraved title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initial

Added half-title

"Table des auteurs": p. 573-614; "Table des no. des Elzevirs, des variorum, & des manuscrits du présent catalogue": p. 615-617

"Corrections": p. 618

Getty Research Institute's copy lacks the frontispiece portrait

Blogie, J. Répertoire

Date of auction: Originally scheduled for Apr. 1746, but delayed. Sources differ regarding actual auction date. Blogie, citing Grélot, gives date as Mar. 1747. Bléchet conjectures that the auction was held Apr. 14-June 17, 1749, based on ms. note in a copy of the catalog held by BNF. Cf. Grélot, F. "Le abbé de Rothelin" in Bibliophile français, t. 5 (1870), p. 10 and: Bléchet, F. Les ventes publiques de livres en France, p. 120

Place of auction: Paris

Library's copy annotated with prices in brown ink throughout; many lots 1-256 (theology) with faint marks in pencil. Book label of J.B. St. Colas Canon on front pastedown; title page annotated in brown ink: L.h.d.L.B.; former library label (?) at head of spine. Binding: mottled calf; spine has 5 raised bands with gilt decoration and title; marbled endpapers; edges red

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