Book sale catalogue.- Bolongaro-Crevenna (Pierre-Antoine) Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de M. Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna, 4 vol. only (of 5), one of 50 copies, engraved plate, vol. 1 priced in ink and pencil, occasional spots or damp-stains generally clean, contemporary cat's paw calf, spines gilt with double morocco labels, some very minor rubbing to extremities, [Brunet II, 424], Amsterdam, J. Changuion & P. den Hengst, 1789.
⁂ Bolongaro-Crevenna (1736-1792) was a rich Amsterdam tobacco and snuff merchant and bibliophile. The greater part of Crevenna’s library was described in the Catalogue raisonné de la Collection des Livres de M. Crevenna, Amsterdam, 1776, 6 vols; this catalogue, however, lists a second portion of his library concerned with theology, jurisprudence, belles-lettres and arts and sciences. The 8046 lots include over 260 MSS and more than 1500 incunabula, as well as a large number Aldines, Elzevirs, Etiennes and other printers of note. The collection was sold at auction at Crevenna’s house in Amsterdam in 1789. This copy has the supplement of Jesuit related works at the end of vol.4 but not the general index which may have been issued later.
Provenance: Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), book auctioneer, book historian (particularly bindings) and bibliophile (armorial bookplates and probably his pencil markings).
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