(AUCTION CATALOGUE: LIGNEROLLES). Catalogue des Livres Rares et Précieux, Manuscrits et Imprimés, composant la Bibliothèque de feu M. Le Comte de Lignerolles.
4 vols. Large 4to, orig. printed wrappers bound in cont. half-cloth & marbled boards. Paris: C. Porquet, 1894-95. The sale of the library collected -- with a zeal bordering on bibliomania -- by Raoul Léonor L'Homme Dieu Tranchant, Comte de Lignerolles (1817-93), marked the nadir of the values of the books collected in the classic French tradition of the 19th century as formulated by Brunet. Altogether the 5296 lots fetched a total of 1,136,407 francs only, the collector having refused an offer of two million francs to part with his library en bloc. Fine set.
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