[BOOK AUCTION] - BROCHARD, Michel (d. ca. 1729)

PRICED (part) in a contemporary hand. Michel Brochard, professor of the humanities at the College Mazarin, formed an important collection with ""significant holdings in French poetry"" (North). He was a friend and adviser of the collector Du Fay. In the preface to the catalogue Martin notes, that the printed catalogue is a copy of Brochard's manuscript catalogue. Martin added the lot numbers and the index. Pollard & Ehrman, p. 337; Taylor, p.14; North 31. Ex libris Godefroy and his signature on the titlepage