Catalogue Des Livres.
Paris, L.-É. Testu 1806.
8vo (212 x 130 mm.). xii, 266 and 4p. (= Order of Sale).
19th-century calf-backed marbled boards, spine and title gilt.
Classical text editor, philologist, manuscript hunter and collector, Villoison focused on fine and large paper copies of scholarly and antiquarian Greek literature. His library supported his scholarship, which included the discovery and first publication of Venetus A — the most important manuscript of Homer’s Iliad and its ancient scholia.
AT THE TIME OF THE SALE, THIS COPY’S OWNER MARKED IN MANUSCRIPT FIFTY-NINE LOTS with an M, AM or LM and a three- to nine-digit number. He also recorded the prices realized in pencil for a third of the lots, including the coded ones. In good condition, lower and outer margins uncut (occasional light spotting, narrow worm trail in some blank upper margins), bookplate of lawyer Frédéric Chéron (d. 1922).
¶Peignot, Répertoire bibliographique universel 131; Blogie, Répertoire des catalogues de ventes II: 25.
Price: $850.00