Bibliography.- de la Serna Santander (Carlos Antonio) Dictionnaire bibliographique choisi de quinzième siècle, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, lacking folding table, some faint browning, contemporary vellum, double morocco labels to spine, boards slightly warped, [Bigmore and Wyman II, 352], small 4to, Brussels, J. Tarte, 1805-07.
⁂ de La Serna Santander (1752-1813) was one of the greatest incunable specialists of his day - close friends with other well-known bibliophiles and bibliographers, such as Crevenna, the Abbé Merceir de Saint-Léger and de Murr - his Dictionnaire bibliographique comprises an historical essay (vol. 1) followed by an alphabetical bibliography of all known incunables. One of the first and best catalogues raisonés of early printing, much relied on by the better known incunabulists of the next two generations.
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