Bure, Bibliographie instructive, Paris, 1763-1782, 10 volumes, contemporary French mottled calf, Anthony Hobson's copy
Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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BURE, GUILLAUME FRANÇOIS DE. Bibliographie instructive: on traité de la connoissance des livres rare et singuliers. Paris: Didot for De Bure le Jeune, 1763-1769, and [vol. 10] Demonville for Goguée & Née de la Rochelle, 1782 [bound with:]
Lettre à M.*** servant de réponse à une critique de la Bibliographie instructive. [Paris: 1763] [and:]
Appel aux savans et aux gens de lettres, au sujet de la Bibliographie instructive. [Paris:] 1763
FIRST EDITION OF ALL TEN VOLUMES of the antiquarian bookseller Guillaume François de Bure's expansive bibliography of rare books, THE FIRST TO CATEGORISE AND DESCRIBE THE GUTENBERG BIBLE ("Bible Mazarine").
This reference work is organised according to the five categories used by French bibliographer and bookseller Prosper Marchand for the Bigot sale, the first book auction in France for which a catalogue was printed: theology, jurisprudence, sciences and arts (initially called philosophy), belles-lettres, and history. Volumes VIII and IX, entitled Supplement a la Bibliographie Instructive, ou Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat, are the auction catalogue of Gaignat (1697-1768), with manuscript prices in brown ink in the margins.
10 volumes, 8vo (192 x 122 mm). Roman and italic type, 30 lines plus headline. Half-titles to volumes III, V and VIII, volumes VIII and IX with manuscript prices in margins. (Lacking most blanks, some worming to lower margin of volume IX.)
binding: Uniform contemporary French mottled calf (198 x 128 mm), spines gilt in compartments, double lettering pieces, edges stained red, marbled endpapers. (Some bindings lightly rubbed and scraped, some corners defective.)
provenance: Anthony Hobson (1921-2015), ex-libris, sale, Christie's, London, 9 June 2015, lot 186. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Grolier, Bibliography, p. 107
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