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MEL DE SAINT-CERAN – Catalogue des livres rares et precieux de Mel de Saint Ceran. Paris: Guillaume de Bure, 1780. 8° (192 x 117mm). (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). [Sold with:] – Catalogue des Livres Rares et Précieux de la Bibliothèque de M. Mel de Saint Ceran. Paris: Guillaume Debure, 6 June 1791. 8° (218 x 133mm). Including the Supplement at end. (A few leaves with light marginal spotting.) Contemporary quarter roan (extremities rubbed, spine mostly perished). Provenance: Pixerecourt (booklabel).
Sale catalogues of Mel de Saint-Ceran's first and second libraries (the first one having been dispersed in 1780). ‘Un choix de livres au moins équivalent au précédent’ according to Peignot, a judgment repeated half a century later by G. Brunet. Debure proceeded with the auction after failing to sell the collection en bloc. Blogie II, col. 18; Graesse II, p.72; North 349. Sold with two other sale catalogues by Guillaume de Bure (Catalogue des livres de feu M Lemarie, 1776; and Catalogue de livres choisis et precieux pour leur belle conservation provenans du cabinet de M***, 1782).
Sale catalogues of Mel de Saint-Ceran's first and second libraries (the first one having been dispersed in 1780). ‘Un choix de livres au moins équivalent au précédent’ according to Peignot, a judgment repeated half a century later by G. Brunet. Debure proceeded with the auction after failing to sell the collection en bloc. Blogie II, col. 18; Graesse II, p.72; North 349. Sold with two other sale catalogues by Guillaume de Bure (Catalogue des livres de feu M Lemarie, 1776; and Catalogue de livres choisis et precieux pour leur belle conservation provenans du cabinet de M***, 1782).
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