Sotheby's Monaco SAM

(27 cm), 236 (15) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Lots numbered 300-1092 (continuing the lot numeration of the catalogue “Tableaux, mobilier et tapisseries ornant le château de La Roche-Guyon et provenant de la succession de Gilbert de La Rochefoucauld, Duc de La Roche-Guyon”, Sotheby’s Monaco SAM, 6-7 December 1987). List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Preface (in French and English translation) on the successive owners of the library and their contributions to it; two plates provide details of the armorial stamps employed on the bindings (several are not recorded by Olivier). A previous sale of books had been conducted in Paris, on 2 July 1927 (Catalogue des manuscrits et incunables provenant de la bibliothèque du château de La R.-G., by Lair Dubreuil with the expertise of Librairie Giraud-Badin); two sales were held subsequently, in Rouen, on 24-25 March 1988 (Bibliothèque du château de La Roche-Guyon, by Philippe Fournier, commissaire-priseur), and on 18 December 1988 (Bibliothèque du château de La Roche-Guyon, dernière vente, also by Philippe Fournier). ¶ Good, unmarked copy.