Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Catalogue des livres du cabinet de M. Boze, woodcut ornament to title, A1 with fine engraved allegorical head-piece by Pierre-Etienne Moitte after Edmé Bouchardon, woodcut head-and tail-pieces, [Grolier, French Book Auctions, 104; Peignot pp.83-84], Paris, G. Martin; H.L. Guérin & L.F. Delatour, 1753 bound with Meerman (Gerard) Plan du traité des origines typographiques, Amsterdam & Paris: A.M. Lottin, 1762, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional faint spots or foxing, contemporary cat's paw calf, spine richly gilt and with red morocco label, small 4to.

⁂ Charles Gros de Boze (1680-1753), scholar numismatist and great bibliophile, who was made secretary in perpetuity of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1706. He was one of the most important book collectors of his time, owning copies of the Gutenberg Bible (lot 18), the Mainz Psalter of 1457 (lot 30), the 1462 Bible on vellum (lot 19), several blockbooks (including the Speculum), and three Grolier bindings. The catalogue was prepared for sale en bloc, and was bought by the collectors Boutin and Cotte for an estimated 114,000 livres, who then shared it between themselves.