(BARROIS, J.).Livre Rare Book
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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