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Bibliographie Instructive: ou Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers: contenant un catalogue raisonne . . .
by DE BURE, Guillaume-Francois (1731–1782)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Montreux, Switzerland
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About This Item
Paris:: Chez Guillaume-Francois de Bure le jeune, 1765., 1765. Two volumes. 8vo. [iii]-xvi, 734, [2]; 544 pp. Head and tail pieces, index, summary of the articles, errata; cords split between pp. 320-321 on vol. 1; some stains. Original mottled calf with elaborate gilt-stamped spine, all edges red; heavily worn, boards showing at edges, covers loose. Internally good. Scarce. These two parts contain the Belles-lettres: being vols. 3 and 4, of the catalogues by De Bure [or Debure or Bure] (1731–1782), the noted French printer, bibliophile and bookseller, who here describes a vast library of rare and unusual books from the 14 century up to his era, including grammar, rhetoric, poetry, mythology, philology, etc. These two volumes are complete in themselves. Other volumes he issued were: Vol. 1. Theologie (1763); Vol. 2. Jurisprudence et des sciences et arts (1764); Vol. 5. Histoire. Tome premier (1768); Vol. 6. Histoire Tome II (1768); Vol. 7. Histoire. Tome III; Table generale (1768), etc.
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- Bookseller
- Jeff Weber Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LV2096
- Title
- Bibliographie Instructive: ou Traite de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers: contenant un catalogue raisonne . . .
- Author
- DE BURE, Guillaume-Francois (1731–1782)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez Guillaume-Francois de Bure le jeune, 1765.
- Place of Publication
- Paris:
- Date Published
- 1765
- Keywords
- Bibliography
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Calf
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