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Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu (d1778)

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£ 4 000
Auction dateClassic
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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Lot 187 | Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu (d1778)
Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu (d.1778)

Catalogue des livres 1779

PÂRIS DE MEYZIEU, Jean-Baptiste (d.1778) – Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Pâris de Meyzieu, ancien conseiller au Parlement, & ancien intendant de l'Ecole Royale Militaire. Paris: Nicolas-Léger Moutard, Libraire-Imprimeur de la Reine, et al, 15 March 1779.



A handsome copy, priced throughout in a contemporary hand, of the extensive library of a ‘fameux bibliophile’. Its sale realized 54,000 livres, considered an extraordinary sum, with the Bibliothèque du Roi among the buyers. This copy belonged to an heir or executor of Pâris who was disappointed with the catalogue, blaming himself for it, according to his note on a front flyleaf: ‘Si ce catalogue n'eut pas été fait par un ignorant, et que je n'eusse pas eu l'imbécillité de le choisir, il pouvait être utile aux amateurs.’ Horne wrongly claims that the library was later sold in London by Edwards in the catalogue Bibliotheca Parisiana, … 26th of March, 1791, confusing Pâris de Meyzieu with Pâris d'Illins. Guigard II, p.90. Horne, pp.716-720; North 276; Olivier V, p.516; Peignot, p.116.



Octavo (198 x 114mm). With ‘Nouveau Supplément’ and table at end. Contemporary Parisian crimson morocco gilt, triple gilt fillets on sides, smooth spine richly gilt-lettered and -decorated in compartments, edges gilt, possibly by Derome le jeune; red cloth folding case. Provenance: an heir or executor of Pâris (inscription on flyleaf, see below) – ‘Triphook 1811’ (note on flyleaf, referencing the London bookseller) – Bernard Breslauer (sale Christie’s, Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, 22-23 March 2005, lot 488).

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