Lot 39
Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Musæum Selectum, sive Catalogus Librorum viri clariss. Michaelis Brochard, Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1729.
Estimate: £300 - 400
Description
Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Musæum Selectum, sive Catalogus Librorum viri clariss. Michaelis Brochard, half-title, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, priced in a contemporary hand (some trimming to fore-edge, at times affecting these with partial loss of numbers or similar), title, following f. and index f. (Y4) with closed tear and tape repair to verso, contemporary calf-backed boards, rebacked in cloth but preserving majority of original gilt backstrip with red morocco label, red edges, [Bléchet p.81; Peignot, p.85. Pollard & Ehrman, p.271; Taylor p.14], 8vo, Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1729.
⁂ Brochard (d. c.1729), Professor of Humanities at the Collège Mazarin, ‘avoit formé un des plus riches cabinets de livres qu’il y eût à Paris’. It is offered here in 3034 lots.
Provenance: James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), bibliophile; Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), book auctioneer, book historian (particularly bindings) and bibliophile (armorial bookplates).
Description
Martin (Gabriel, compiler & auctioneer) Musæum Selectum, sive Catalogus Librorum viri clariss. Michaelis Brochard, half-title, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, priced in a contemporary hand (some trimming to fore-edge, at times affecting these with partial loss of numbers or similar), title, following f. and index f. (Y4) with closed tear and tape repair to verso, contemporary calf-backed boards, rebacked in cloth but preserving majority of original gilt backstrip with red morocco label, red edges, [Bléchet p.81; Peignot, p.85. Pollard & Ehrman, p.271; Taylor p.14], 8vo, Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1729.
⁂ Brochard (d. c.1729), Professor of Humanities at the Collège Mazarin, ‘avoit formé un des plus riches cabinets de livres qu’il y eût à Paris’. It is offered here in 3034 lots.
Provenance: James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), bibliophile; Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), book auctioneer, book historian (particularly bindings) and bibliophile (armorial bookplates).
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