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(AUCTION CATALOGUE). Catalogue Raisonné d'une Collection considérable de di- 

 verses Curiosités en tous Genres, contenues dans les Cabinets de feu Monsieur 

 Bonnier de la Mosson, Bailly § Capitaine des Chasses de la Varenne des Thuilleries 

 $ ancien Colonel du Régiment Dauphin. tCompiled by Edme Franco is i Gersaint . 

 2 p.l., xiii,r3l, 234,c2ipp. 12mo, cont. mottled sheep-backed paste-paper 

 boards (extremities a little worn, foot o£ spine chipped) , spine gilt, red morocco 

 lettering pièce on spine. Paris: J. Barois § P.G. Simon, 1744. 



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A highly interesting copy of this sale catalogue (966 lots, but many items are 

 lotted together) of the various collections formed by Monsieur Bonnier de la 

 Mosson, comprising nine distinct cabinets: 1) anatomical spécimens; 2) equipment 

 of a chemical laboratory; 3) pharmacy apparatus; 4) drugs; 5) tools and turning 

 machinery; 6) preserved zoological spécimens; 7) botanical spécimens; 8)scientific 

 instruments; and 9)|prints, shells, books, paintings, sculpture, porcelain, and 

 jewelry. If we are to believe the compiler 's "Avertissement," the collection of 

 Bonnier de la Mosson was a very choice one. containing many rare and extraordinary 

 items purchased at great expense and difficulty. 



This copy is interleaved throughout and con tains, in a contemporary hand, the 

 prices realized and the buyers' names. Amongst thèse names, we find Buffon' s as 

 a fréquent buyer of anatomical Jzoological, and entomological spécimens. 



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(AUC. CAT., Bonnier de la Mosson). p. 2. 



Gersaint (d. 1750), antiquarian, made his living compiling catalogues for auction 

 of art objects, natural history curiosities and spécimens, and related material . He 

 compiled a catalogue raisonne for both Rembrandt and Callot. 



A very good copy of a valuable document. Very uncommon. 



