![ESTRÉES, Victor Marie (1660-1737) – Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu monseigneur le Maréchal Duc d'Estrées. Paris: Jacques Guérin, 1740. [Bound with:] Catalogue des estampes, cartes geographiques, . de Monseigneur le Maréchal Duc d’Estrées. Paris: Jacques Guerin, 1741. [And:] Table alphabéthique des noms des auteurs, & des ouvrages sans nom d’auteur. Paris: Prevost, 1760. 2 volumes, 8° (198 x 125mm). Half-titles, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (Light browning throughout, stronger on some leaves.) Contemporary marbled calf, lettering-pieces, spines gilt in compartments, marbled edges (front joints starting to split at head and foot but cords firmly holding, rubbed). Provenance: BIBLIOTHECA LINDENSIANA, The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_10414_0172_000(estrees_victor_marie_catalogue_des_livres_de_la_bibliotheque_de_feu_mo112418).jpg?w=1)
Details
ESTRÉES, Victor Marie (1660-1737) – Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu monseigneur le Maréchal Duc d'Estrées. Paris: Jacques Guérin, 1740. [Bound with:] Catalogue des estampes, cartes geographiques, . de Monseigneur le Maréchal Duc d’Estrées. Paris: Jacques Guerin, 1741. [And:] Table alphabéthique des noms des auteurs, & des ouvrages sans nom d’auteur. Paris: Prevost, 1760. 2 volumes, 8° (198 x 125mm). Half-titles, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (Light browning throughout, stronger on some leaves.) Contemporary marbled calf, lettering-pieces, spines gilt in compartments, marbled edges (front joints starting to split at head and foot but cords firmly holding, rubbed). Provenance: BIBLIOTHECA LINDENSIANA, The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (bookplate).
PRICED THROUGHOUT in a contemporary hand. The collection comprises 52,000 volumes; the library was sold in about 20,000 lots. Although the prices realised were low, Prevost realised the continuing usefulness of the catalogue and published an index to it twenty years after the sale. Blogie II, col. 4; North 55; Taylor, p. 240.
PRICED THROUGHOUT in a contemporary hand. The collection comprises 52,000 volumes; the library was sold in about 20,000 lots. Although the prices realised were low, Prevost realised the continuing usefulness of the catalogue and published an index to it twenty years after the sale. Blogie II, col. 4; North 55; Taylor, p. 240.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.