Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Naudé, Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque, Paris, 1627, eighteenth-century half calf

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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NAUDÉ, GABRIEL. Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque. Paris: François Targa, 1627 [bound after:]


MEERMAN, GÉRARD. Plan du Traité des origines typographiques. Paris: Augustin-Martin Lottin, 1762 [and:]


DUREY DE NOINVILLE, JACQUES-BERNARD. Dissertation sur les bibliothèques. Paris: Claude-Jean-Baptiste II Hérissant & Hugues-Daniel Chaubert, 1758 [and:]


[Idem.] Table alphabetique des dictionnaires En toutes sortes de Langues & sur toutes sortes de Sciences & d'Arts. Paris, 1758


FIRST EDITION OF NAUDÉ'S SEMINAL SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH TREATISE ON LIBRARIANSHIP, very rare at auction. Naudé was librarian to Cardinal Mazarin, as well as a noted humanist and scholar. Bound with three other rare eighteenth-century works, including Durey de Noinville's early bibliography of bibliographies and his bibliography of dictionaries.

4 works in one volume, first edition of Naudé, 8vo (167 x 103 mm). (1: Meerman) Roman type. collation: a4 A-G8 H4 I2 K1: 59 leaves (of 60: lacking terminal blank). Woodcut headpieces and printer's ornaments; (2: De Noinville) Roman type. collation: π1 A-K8: 81 leaves (of 82: lacking preliminary blank). Title-page with woodcut printer's ornament; (3: de Noinville) Roman and some italic type. collation: π2 A-E8 F4 G1: 47 leaves (of 48: lacking terminal blank). Title-page with woodcut ornament; (4: Naudé) Roman and some italic type. collation: A-X4: 84 leaves. Title-page with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-pieces. Occasional marginalia. (Marginal dampstaining throughout.)


binding: Eighteenth-century brown quarter calf over marbled boards (175 x 113 mm), spine with 5 raised bands flanked by 2 gilt fillets, red title label in second spine compartment, red edges. (Extremities rubbed.)


provenance: Ownership inscription "Frank Hawley 1948" to front free endpaper. acquisition: Purchased in 1993 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: (1) Bigmore & Wyman II, 32; (2) Besterman 783; (4) USTC 6019927

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