Pierre Bergé & associés (Paris)

(27 cm), 192 (4) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 396 lots. Saleroom notice loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The sale “was distinguished by a very fine binding, hitherto unrecorded, for Claude de l’Aubespine (with his characteristic inventory mark), attributed to the ‘binder of Mahieu’s Aesop’ rather than ‘Grolier’s last binder’; it made €90,000, and has gone appropriately to the Bibliothèque Mazarine; two very interesting lots, together most of Beaumarchais’s printed works in many contemporary editions and a special collection on the ‘procés Beaumarchais’, inexplicably failed to sell” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 2007, pp.79-80). Contents: Bibliothèque Elisabeth et Robert Lutz; Livres anciens provenant de différentes collections; Collection de livres d’architecture; Livres sur les voyages; Bibliothèque médicale du professeur C.; Livres des XIXe et XXe siècles provenant de différentes collections. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.