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BRANCAS DE LAURAGUAIS, Louis Léon Félicité, Duc de (1733-1824) – Guillaume DE BURE (1734-1820). Catalogue d'une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M. ***. Paris: Guillaume De Bure, fils aîné, 11 June 1770. 8° (193 x 120mm). With two pages of adverts. (Without blanks, small and faint dampstain in the top margin.) 19th-century green boards, paper spine label (spine neatly repaired, label chipped, spine darkened, extremities rubbed). Provenance : 'Chasseur bibliographe' (label).
BRANCAS DE LAURAGUAIS, Louis Léon Félicité, Duc de (1733-1824) – Guillaume DE BURE (1734-1820). Catalogue d'une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M. ***. Paris: Guillaume De Bure, fils aîné, 11 June 1770. 8° (193 x 120mm). With two pages of adverts. (Without blanks, small and faint dampstain in the top margin.) 19th-century green boards, paper spine label (spine neatly repaired, label chipped, spine darkened, extremities rubbed). Provenance : 'Chasseur bibliographe' (label). PRICED and annotated in a contemporary hand. The sale catalogue of the library of the Duc de Brancas, known as Comte de Lauraguais, who devoted himself, after a military career, to literature, the arts, and science. Voltaire dedicated the comedy L'Ecossaise to Brancas. His rather spectacular spending in various fields forced Brancas to part with his collection. DBF calls him an 'homme d'esprit et de bon sens, mais outrecuidant et amoral'. Blogie II, col.11; Graesse II:71; North 199.