(AUCTION CATALOGUE: BERGERET, -- ). Catalogue de Livres Anciens rares et curieux composant la Bibliothèque de M. Bergeret.
viii, 341, [2] pp.; 2 p.l., [vii], 406 pp. Two vols. in one. 8vo, cont. purple sheep-backed marbled boards (joints rubbed, minor foxing), flat spine gilt. Paris: J. Techener, 1858-59. Bergeret, whose first name cannot be ascertained, was a collector living in Lyon about whose sales G. Brunet, in his Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique, devotes a detailed two-column (cols. 414-16) account. The collection, numbering 5227 lots, was especially rich in books of Lyonese interest. The highest prices were paid for two Maioli bindings on the same edition of the same text, Blondus, De Roma Triumphante (Basel: 1531): lot 2279 in Part I (M. de Rothschild), 2000 frs. and lot 2942 in Part II (Hobson, Nos. 16 & 17), 2600 frs. Very good copy. Bookplate of Comte L. de B.
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