Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de feu M. de Selle, tresorier general de la Marine
Contributors: Barrois, Jacques-Marie, 1704-1769, bookseller; Davidts, R., bookseller; Didot, François-Ambroise, 1730-1804, printer
Publisher: Chez Barrois & Davitz, libraires, quai des Augustins
Published: 1761
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Bibliography; Library; Catalogs; Private libraries; Rare books; Early printed books
Notes: Ecole nationale des chartes identifies seller as: Marcellin-François-Zacharie de Selle.

Head-piece; title vignette.

2857 + 168 lots.

Signatures: a-f⁴, A-2Q⁴(-2Q⁴), ²A⁴.

Printer's statement from colophon, p. 310. Supplement has printer's statement from colophon: De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée, près le quai des Augustins, à la Bible d'Or.

"Éclaircissemens": p. [ix]-xlviij.

"Table des auteurs": p. 274-310.

"Supplément au catalogue": second p. [1]-8.

Getty Research Institute copy has bound in at end a two-page list of lots to be sold in the continuation of the sale on Apr. 27-29, May 2-5, and May 7-9. At head of list: La vente des livres de la bibliotheque de feu Monsieur De Selle, trésorier général da la marine, continuera lundi 27 avril ... en sa maison, rue Sainte Anne, butte Saint Roch ...

Ecole nationale des chartes. ELEC. Esprit des livres, viewed online, Apr. 13, 2012 http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cataloguevente/

BN, FRBNF36542426

Grolier Club. French book auctions, 159

Blogie, J. Répertoire II, 8

Date of sale: 1761, start date uncertain. Page iv of "Avertissement" states the sale will take place before Easter (that year, Mar. 22). Grolier Club gives start date of sale as Feb. 1, 1761; BN as: Mar. 9, 1761; Blogie as: Apr. 20, 1761. Getty Research Institute's copy has notice bound at end stating the sale would continue Apr. 27; the final date in the schedule given there is May 9.

Place of sale: Paris.

Library's copy annotated with prices in brown ink. Binding: mottled calf, gilt decorated spine.