Laurin, Guilloux, Buffetaud, Tailleur (Paris)

(28.5 cm), [272] pp., illustrations (many in colour). 337 lots. List of estimates loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Property consigned by Executors of Marquis Emmanuel du Bourg de Bozas Chaix d’Est-Ange (1894-1990). Highlight of the sale was a fifteenth-century manuscript on vellum of the Dyalogue des creatures from the Béthencourt library (reapeared in Sotheby’s, Fifty magnificent illuminated manuscripts, 3 December 2002, lot 32). A “deuxième vente; livres anciens, romantiques et modernes; autographes et manuscrits précieux; livres et autographes sur Nevers et le nivernais” (602 lots) was conducted 24-25 June 1991. ¶ Unmarked copy.