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DU FAY, Charles-Jérome de Cisternay (1662-1723) -- Gabriel MARTIN (1679-1761). Bibliotheca Fayana, seu Catalogus librorum bibliothecae...Car. Hieronymi de Cisternay Du Fay...Digestus & descriptus Gabriele Martin...cum indice alphabetico. Paris: Gabriel Martin, 25 June 1725.
8o (189 x 121 mm). Allegorical title vignette engraved by L.B. Scotin and engraved portrait by P. Devret after Hyancinthe Rigaud, Contemporary calf gilt (upper joint cracked).
PRICED in a contemporary hand. One of Martin's best and most frequently cited auction catalogues, and one of the 22 provided with an index. The collector Du Fay was advised by his friend Michel Brochard, professor at the Collège Mazarin and the author of the notice in Latin following the preface in this catalogue. A very interesting copy with notes in a contemporary hand regarding the prices realized, and occasional remarks on valuations, rarity and importance of the lots. Blogie II, col. 2; Brunet III:1497; Guigard II, p.144; North 22; Pollard & Ehrman 269; Taylor p. 239.
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PRICED in a contemporary hand. One of Martin's best and most frequently cited auction catalogues, and one of the 22 provided with an index. The collector Du Fay was advised by his friend Michel Brochard, professor at the Collège Mazarin and the author of the notice in Latin following the preface in this catalogue. A very interesting copy with notes in a contemporary hand regarding the prices realized, and occasional remarks on valuations, rarity and importance of the lots. Blogie II, col. 2; Brunet III:1497; Guigard II, p.144; North 22; Pollard & Ehrman 269; Taylor p. 239.