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Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de feu M. Falconet médecin consultant du Roi et Doyen des Médecins de la Faculté de Paris de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres etc.
1763101455<p>Paris Barrois 1763. 2 vols. in 3. including table. 8vo. v-xliv 543 1 blank 829 1 blank pp. Contemporary half calf spines gilt. some very light browning. A good copy with the exlibris of A. Kühnholtz-Lordat pasted on the inside front cover of all three volumes A good copy.</p><p>The sales catalogue of the library of the French court physician Camille Falconet 1671 - 1762 who had been a book collector for more than 70 years. The catalogue was compiled by Jean Capperonnier and edited by Jacques-Marie Barrois. Falconet bequeathed to the Bibliothèque du Roi all those books not already in that collection and stipulated that the rest were to be sold; the items in the catalogue 11000 destined for the Bibliothèque du Roi are set off within square brackets very unusual in a catalogue. The sale 6 March 1763 fetched a total of 39062 livres. 19798 lots containing over 60000 books are listed including manuscripts maps and prints and with very significant holdings in medicine and natural history.<strong> It is also this is the first auction catalogue with a separate chapter on America</strong> II 363 ff. Peignot calls this catalogue "un des plus considérables qui existent". c.f. Grolier Club # 169; Taylor Book Catalogues p. 240-241.</p>
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