Catalogue des livres et manuscrits formant la bibliothèque de feu M. J.B. Th. de Jonghe.

8vo: xxi (= 17: lacking 4 pp.)-[10]-391, xii (unbound)-454, x-457 pp.

Black quarter shagreen, gilt flat spine (rubbed, sm. def.). Good copy.

Voluminous auction catalogue in three parts, important given the great amount of works on history, heraldry, genealogy, and numismatics of the Low Countries, totalling 10,923 lots. Jean-Baptiste Théodore de Jonghe (1801-1860) was a diplomat, lawyer and the heir to a great fortune. Lithogr. frontisp. portrait of the collector. Ms. prices, and also many buyers' names. Prefaces partly bound at beginning of vol., all indexes bound at end. Preface part II unbound. Ref. Blogie I:145-7. Prov. Blank libr. label on title part I.