Author: MARTIN, GABRIELE (DIGESTUS & DESCRIPTUS) [LIBRARY OF DU FAY, CHARLES JéRôME DE CISTERNAY]
Title: Bibliotheca Fayana, Seu Catalogus Librorum BibliothecÆ Ill. Viri. D. Car. Hieronymi de Cisternay Du Fay GallicanÆ Cohortis PrÆTorianorum Militum Centurionis
Description: Parisiis, Gabriele Martin, 1725. Hard Cover . Octavo, early full calf, gilt in six compartments with contrasting lettering piece, marbled endpapers: [8] xxii, pp.450, 107 (pp.183-4 duplicated between 106-107) [1] 26ll. (index), woodcut head and tailpieces. Lacking title page and portrait, offsetting to half-title. Binding worn chiefly at spine edges, head and tail (caps exposed/detaching), some splitting of endpapers over hinges, front free endpapers starting, boards still firmly attached; just a tiny hint of worm at front hinge. Notes, marginalia throughout, text block sound.

Keywords: French Auction Records Eighteenth Century Antiquarian Reference Collectors Collections Libraries Bindings Jéröme Books on Books


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