Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de la Maison professe des ci-devant soi-disans jesuites.
Contributors: Ménage, Gilles, 1613-1692.; Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721.; Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des imprimés.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Pissot [etc.]
Published: 1763
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Theology -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Philology -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Classical literature -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Early printed books -- France -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Rare books -- France -- Bibliography -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Bibliography; Catalogs.; Catalogs; Early works to 1800.
Notes: "Cette vente se fera au mois de décembre".--p. [iiij]
7,252 entries; priced for the most part, except entries withdrawn.
"Le catalogue ... est composé de plusieurs bibliotheques, parmi lesquelles celles de Menage & du fameux Huet tiennent le premier rang."--p. [iii]
Sale forced by the expulsion of the Jesuits from France in 1764.
Caption title.
The books withdrawn from the sale comprise the portion of the library which had belonged to Huet, bishop of Avranches, according to whose will it was to revert to his heirs in case the library should be dispersed. The bishop's heir and nephew, M. de Charsigné, in whose favor the Council of state issued the decree of withdrawal, deposited the library of over 8,000 volumes in the Royal library in 1765, and was granted, it is said, an annuity of 1,750 livres. cf. Franklin, Les anciennes bibliothèques de Paris, v. 2, p. 275-277; Le Prince, Essai historique sur la Bibliothèque du roi, 1856, p. 91-92, 394; and Murray, Bibliography, p. [1]