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DU FAY, Charles-Jérome de Cisternay (1662-1723) – Gabriel MARTIN (1679-1761). Bibliotheca Fayana, seu Catalogus librorum bibliothecae... cum indice alphabetico. Paris: Gabriel Martin 25 June 1725. 8° (190 x 125mm). Allegorical title vignette engraved by L.B. Scotin. (Lacking frontispiece portrait, occasional light marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label (joints repaired, spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, front board scuffed). Provenance : Leon Duris du Fresne (c.1845-1888; bookplate).
DU FAY, Charles-Jérome de Cisternay (1662-1723) – Gabriel MARTIN (1679-1761). Bibliotheca Fayana, seu Catalogus librorum bibliothecae... cum indice alphabetico. Paris: Gabriel Martin 25 June 1725. 8° (190 x 125mm). Allegorical title vignette engraved by L.B. Scotin. (Lacking frontispiece portrait, occasional light marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label (joints repaired, spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, front board scuffed). Provenance : Leon Duris du Fresne (c.1845-1888; bookplate). THIS CATALOGUE ‘MARKS THE BEGINNING OF BIBLIOPHILY IN FRANCE’ (Bléchet). One of Martin's best and most frequently cited auction catalogues, priced in a contemporary hand. Du Fay, advised by his friend Michel Brochard of the Collège Mazarin, became during his collecting life an outstanding connoisseur, and was acquainted with many eminent contemporaries, including Fontenelle, and Europe's best booksellers. Bléchet, in Charon (ed), Les ventes de livres et leurs catalogues, Paris: 2000, p.83; Blogie II, col. 2; Brunet III,1497; Guigard II, p.144; North 22; Pollard & Ehrman 269; Taylor, p. 239.