Catalogue des livres de feu M. l'abbé d'Orleans de Rothelin
By: par G. Martin
Publisher: Chez Gabriel Martin, libraire, ruë S. Jacques, à l'Etoile
Published: 1746
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 618
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Bibliography; Early printed books; Catalogs; Private libraries; Rare books; Library
Other titles: Catalogue de Rothelin
Notes: Signatures: pip2s, *p4s, ap4s, ep4s, ip4s, A-4Hp4s 4Ip2s (-4I2).

5,036 lots.

Frontispiece portrait; engraved title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initial.

Added half-title.

"Table des auteurs": p. 573-614; "Table des no. des Elzevirs, des variorum, & des manuscrits du présent catalogue": p. 615-617.

"Corrections": p. 618.

Getty Research Institute's copy lacks the frontispiece portrait.

Blogie, J. Répertoire II, 5

Date of auction: Originally scheduled for Apr. 1746, but delayed. Sources differ regarding actual auction date. Blogie, citing Grélot, gives date as Mar. 1747. Bléchet conjectures that the auction was held Apr. 14-June 17, 1749, based on ms. note in a copy of the catalog held by BNF. Cf. Grélot, F. "Le abbé de Rothelin" in Bibliophile français, t. 5 (1870), p. 10 and: Bléchet, F. Les ventes publiques de livres en France, p. 120.

Place of auction: Paris.

Library's copy annotated with prices in brown ink throughout; many lots 1-256 (theology) with faint marks in pencil. Book label of J.B. St. Colas Canon on front pastedown; title page annotated in brown ink: L.h.d.L.B.; former library label (?) at head of spine. Binding: mottled calf; spine has 5 raised bands with gilt decoration and title; marbled endpapers; edges red.