SAINTE-BEUVE, Charles-Augustin (1804-1869) -- Catalogue des livres rares et curieux composant la bibliothèque de M. Sainte-Beuve. Paris: Adolphe Lainé for L. Potier, 21 March 1870.

Details
SAINTE-BEUVE, Charles-Augustin (1804-1869) -- Catalogue des livres rares et curieux composant la bibliothèque de M. Sainte-Beuve. Paris: Adolphe Lainé for L. Potier, 21 March 1870.

2 volumes bound in one, 8o (222 x 125 mm). Contemporary crimson half morocco, t.e.g., by A. Bertrand.

PARTLY PRICED in pencil. Sale catalogue of the library of the great French homme de lettres, with a long bio-bibliographical essay by Edouard Scherer. The collection included early and 16th-century editions of French poetry, and first editions of the works of his contemporaries, many annotated by him. Blogie II, col. 119.

More from Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana The Second

View All
View All