LA VALLIERE (Louis Cesar). Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de feu M. Le Duc de la Valliere... par Guillaume de Bure, fils aine.1783

Paris: Guillaume de Bure, 3 Vols., 8vo (197 x 120 mm), [4], lxiv,71, [1], x, 90, 602; [2], 758; [4], 388, 376, 92, 42, [2]pp., half-titles to vols., 1 & 3, engraved portrait frontis., 5 engraved plates (3 folding), marbled endpapers, cont. calf, marbled boards. The most important portion of the Duc de la Valliere library, comprising the incunabula and a remarkable collection of early French literary manuscripts, described at length by De Bure and Van Praet. This set contains the rare supplement to volume one and the 42-page price list. Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Eliza Stepney Gulston (1769-1858). Pollard & Ehrman, 297; Brunet, II, 554.