Catalogue d’une précieuse Collection de Tableaux…Bronzes, Porcelaines d’ancien Sèvres et de la Chine, Pendules de Boules, Tabatières, et différens objets de curiosités, formant la réunion des deux Cabinets de M. D*** et de M. de B***… (24 March 1818)

32 pp. 8vo, late 19th-cent. marbled boards, title on spine. Paris: Nouzou, 1818.


Scarce sale catalogue, annotated throughout with prices and buyers’ names in a contemporary hand; we find only two copies in North American libraries. The consigners of this sale’s contents have not been clearly established, the title-page of this copy bears a manuscript note suggesting that “M. de B***” was “Bertinval,” possibly a member of the noble family Thourou de Bertinval. Charles Paillet may have also mixed in pictures from his stock.


A total of 156 lots were auctioned, a contemporary annotator has recorded nearly all of the prices (truncated) realized and many of the buyers who won lots, providing important details on provenance. Unfortunately, in the process of fashioning a new binding for this catalogue, the binder has closely trimmed the edges, partially cutting away some of the names.


Near fine. Engraved bookplate of Georges Pannier to front paste-down and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim to verso of title.


❧ Lugt 9331. (Inventory #: 10575)