Bibliotheca Colbertina, seu, Catalogus librorum bibliothecae
Subtitle: quae fuit primum ill. v. d. J.B. Colbert, regni administri, deinde ill. d. J.B. Colbert, March. de Seignelay ; postea rev. et. ill. d. J. Nic. Colbert, Rothomagensis Archiepiscopi, ac demum ill. d. Caroli-Leonorii Colbert, Comitis de Seignelay
Contributors: Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-1683; Seignelay, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de, 1651-1690; Colbert, Jacques-Nicolas, 1655-1707; Colbert, Charles-Eléonor, d. 1747; Montalant, François, 1677-1754
Publisher: Apud Gabrielem Martin, via Jacobea, ad insigne Stellae, Franciscum Montalant, ad ripam Augustinianorum
Published: 1728
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1362
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Bibliography; Library; Catalogs; Rare books; Early printed books
Other titles: Bibliotheca Colbertina; Catalogus librorum bibliothecae
Notes: Three parts paged continuously. Pars prima: [2], xviij, 288 p.; pars secunda: [2], 289-862 p.; pars tertia: [2], 877-1362 [i.e. 863-1348]. Parts 2 and 3 with half titles only.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

18,289 lots.

Date of auction: May 24, 1728, and days following.

Place of auction: Paris.

Library's copy in 3 vols.; annotated with prices in two different hands: one in brown ink; the other later, in black ink. Not priced after lot 15,973. Half title of part 1 has ms. note in brown ink, "ex Libris ad usum [illegible] venalis usu est. les livres ont èté donnés pour rien à cette vente" (the illegible words written over and crossed out in black ink). Binding: mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorations, and title.