W. S. Cotter Rare Books

Girardot de Préfond, Paul

CATALOGUE DES LIVRES DU CABINET DE MR. G… D… P… Par Guillaume-Franç. De Bure, le jeune. A PARIS, Chez Guil. Fr. De Bure, le jeune, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Pavee, à l'Image Saint Germain. M. D C C. L V I I.

Paris: Guillaume DeBure, 1757.
[1428 lots of books, and nine lots of scientific instruments.] Paul Girardot de Préfond suffered a serious bout of melancholy after retiring—in his thirties—from the family timber business. His personal physician, Hyacinthe-Théodore Baron, a bibliophile of some standing (whose own not-insubstantial collection was dispersed at auction.....

Price: $1,450.00

PÂRIS d'ILLINS, Antoine Marie

Bibliotheca Elegantissima Parisina.

Paris and London: James Edwards, 1790.
[637 lots, unpriced.] Much has been written about virtually every aspect of the Catalogue Parisina—both about the French edition (our book) and the later, more common English edition—including the identities of the consignors, the true provenance of the books in the sale, the complex.....

Price: $1,600.00

SENICOURT, Jean-François de

BIBLIOTHECA SENICURTIANA SIVE CATALOGUS LIBRORUM. QUOS COLLEGERAT, Joan Franciscus de Senicourt, in Suprema Curia Parisiensi Patronus. PARISIIS, Apud J. B. G. Musier filium Bibliopolam, ad Ripam Augustinianorum, sub signo S. Stephani. M. DCC. LXVI.

Paris: Musier, 1766.
[7319 lots, unpriced.] The celebrated library of Jean-François de Senicourt, bailiff at Poissy and avocat at Parlement in Paris (causidicus in supremo senatu), was dispersed from Monday 2 June to Friday 22 August 1766, and was naturally steep in law texts, with rare and obscure coutumiers numbering.....

Price: $2,100.00