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five old books are lined up on a white surfacethe front page of a book with a picture of a bird on itan old book that is open on a tablean open book with writing on it on a tablean open book with a picture of a bird on ita book open on a white surface with a black and white image
Maître Paul PASTAUD

1930 - [LA PORTE (Joseph de) & BARBIER (Antoine Alexandre) & DES ES…
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[LA PORTE (Joseph de) & BARBIER (Antoine Alexandre) & DES ESSARTS (Nicolas Toussaint)]. New Library for a Man of Taste, entirely revised, corrected and expanded, containing reviews drawn from the most renowned journals and the most esteemed critics on the finest works published in all genres, both in France and abroad, to date; by A. A. BARBIER and N. L. M. DESESSARTS. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1817. 5 vols. in-8, in contemporary green Bradel cardboard binding, title page in red marbling. Old handwritten notes (draft of a family letter) in pencil on the endpapers. Included: - [MAYEUL-CHAUDON (Abbé L.)], Bibliothèque d’un homme de goût, or Opinions on the Choice of the Best Books Written in Our Language on All Branches of Science and Literature, with the Judgements Passed by the Most Impartial Critics on the Fine Works Published from the Revival of the Arts until 1772, by L.M.D.V. librarian to His Grace the Duke of **. Avignon, Aubanel and Costard, 1762. 2 vols. small 12mo, marbled sheepskin, ornately ribbed spine, red edges (contemporary binding). First edition. (Quérard II, 799–800; Barbier I, 412.) - The Hunt for Misguided Bibliographers and Antiquarians, followed by numerous critical notes on the history of early printing and on various biological and bibliographical subjects, as well as several clarifications on the reform of the French alphabet and on various aspects of French public law and that of Provence [...] Volume II, Part I. London, N. Aphobe, &c., 1789. In-8, calfskin with natural grain, smooth decorated spine, title page and volume number in red marble, gilt fillets and roulette framing the covers, marbled edges (bound anew c. 1800). Very rare. The second volume contains only the preface, the errata and the very detailed table of contents for the first volume (which is missing here). “The author is listed in the title as a pupil of Abbé Rive, but it is all too easy to recognise the abbot himself in the cynical tone of his criticism, the eccentricity and inaccuracies of his language, above all in the coarseness of the insults directed at several estimable and distinguished bibliographers; one may chance upon, amidst this confused jumble of minutiae and in the text itself, a few accurate observations or some curious details, but this is to acquire a very meagre amount of knowledge at the cost of far too much disgust and boredom." Quérard (VIII, 63.) - [LA PORTE (Joseph de)], *New Library of a Man of Taste, or a Survey of Ancient and Modern Literature, Both Foreign and National*, in which the subject is set out and thespirit of all the books that have appeared throughout the centuries, across all genres and in all languages, with a concise, precise, clear and impartial judgement drawn from the most renowned periodicals and the most esteemed critics of our time. Volume Two. Paris, Rue Saint-Jacques au Grand Corneille, 1777. Volume two alone of the original edition (which is believed to comprise four volumes). - GOUJET (Abbé), *Bibliothèque française, or History of French Literature*, in which the usefulness thatcan be derived from books published in French since the dawn of printing for the understanding of belles-lettres, the history of science and the arts, and in which the critics’ judgements on the principal works in each genre written in the same language are recorded. Volume One. Paris, Mariette and Guerin, 1740. 12mo, half-calf (19th-century binding). A SET OF 10 VOLUMES.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 4 of 4 – Nos. 1643 to 1970
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