Dictionnaire Portatif de Bibliographie, Contenant plus de 17,000 Articles de Livres Rares, Curiux, Estimés et Recherchés... suivi du Catalogue des Éditions cum notis Variorum, ad usum Delphini, et de celles Impimées par les Aldes, les Elzevirs, Baskerville, etc
by FOURNIER (Francois Ignace)
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Fournier Fréres, Paris. 1805. First Edition, [iv],viii,401,[4]pp., (pp. 41-44 repeated), recent half calf, marbled boards, a nice copy. First Edition of the immediate predecessor to Brunet. A listing of over 17,000 books from incunabula up to about 1800. The entries include information on how to distinguish originals from forgeries, and notes on relative rarity and importance, together with prices obtained in famous sales. This main part of the book is followed by a 24-page list of Aldine editions from 1494 to 1595; there are also list of Variorum editions of the classics, of 'ad usum Delphini' editions, classical and French editions by Elsevier, Latin editions from Baskerville and Barbou, and French classical authors by Didot. Taylor, pp. 35-36; Brunet II, 1360.
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- Forest Books (GB)
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- Title
- Dictionnaire Portatif de Bibliographie, Contenant plus de 17,000 Articles de Livres Rares, Curiux, Estimés et Recherchés... suivi du Catalogue des Éditions cum notis Variorum, ad usum Delphini, et de celles Impimées par les Aldes, les Elzevirs, Baskerville, etc
- Author
- FOURNIER (Francois Ignace)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fournier Fréres, Paris. 1805
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Incunabula
- Incunabula (incunable or incunabulum) refers to a book printed before 1501 - a pamphlet, a book or document that was not...