Catalogue des livres Français etc. qui se trouvent chez Paul Jaques [sic] Besson, libraire à Leipzig, Grimmische Gasse no. 610 au premier.
by BESSON, PAUL JACQUES
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(Leipzig), Foire de Jubilate, 1809. 8vo. 304 pp. Original thin grey wrappers made of reused paper with the top of the back cover strengthened and traces of a stamp on the inside back cover. (paper more or less browned and foxed throughout, title a bit dustsoiled & top right corner of the titlepage strengthened). Ex-libris 'Biblioteca Fagnani M" (Federico III Fagnani) pasted on the verso of the title.
Rare catalogue of French books for sale at Paul Jacques Besson in Leizpig. Not much is known about Besson or his life. The present catalogue shows which books in French were available in Leipzig. The catalogue contains over 4000 items that are arranged alphabetically by title. The catalogue starts (pages 3 - 11) with the 'Editions Stéréotypes de Didot et d'Herhan' and then continues alphabetically by title. It was published on the was published on the occasion of the 'Foire de Jubilate', the annual fair that was held in Leipzig after Easter. It was the most important book fair in Germany at the time. In the course of the seventeenth more books were for sale in Leipzig than at the Frankfurt fair. From the library of Marquis Federico III Fagnani (1775 - 1840) whose important collection was can now be found in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana. It was their single largest bequest, consisting of 23,000 books and manuscripts and 16,000 prints. [OCLC gives only one copy in the National Library of Poland in Warschau].
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- Title
- Catalogue des livres Français etc. qui se trouvent chez Paul Jaques [sic] Besson, libraire à Leipzig, Grimmische Gasse no. 610 au premier.
- Author
- BESSON, PAUL JACQUES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1809
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.