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BOURRET, Pierre-Abel? -- Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu Monsieur Bourret. Paris: Jean Boudot & Jacques Guérin, 18 July 1735
8o (162 x 95 mm). (Lacks half-title.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, lower cover with the gilt coat-of-arms of the Comtesse d'Ons-en-Bray surmounted by a princely coronet (some splitting and wear, old repairs to the joints). Provenance: Comtesse d'Ons-en-Bray, née Princess de Gallifat-Martigues, wife of Louis-Léon Pajot, Comte d'Ons-en-Bray (see OHDR 150 & Rietstap, binding).
PRICED in a contemporary hand. Bourret was "Intendant de la Principauté de Neuf-Chastel & de Vallegin" (Neuchâtel -- "Neuenburg" -- was under the nominal rule of the Kings of Prussia between 1707 and 1857). His large library contained many rarities from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as excellent collections of historical and theological writings. Blogie II, col. 3; North 39; Pollard & Ehrman 274.
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PRICED in a contemporary hand. Bourret was "Intendant de la Principauté de Neuf-Chastel & de Vallegin" (Neuchâtel -- "Neuenburg" -- was under the nominal rule of the Kings of Prussia between 1707 and 1857). His large library contained many rarities from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as excellent collections of historical and theological writings. Blogie II, col. 3; North 39; Pollard & Ehrman 274.