The best catalogue of a German 18th C private library Bibliothecae Bunaviana

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The best catalogue of a German 18th C private library Bibliothecae Bunaviana:
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CatalogiBibliothecae Bvnavianae Tomi ... Volvmen ... / [Johann Michael Francke]

Auctoresantiquos sacros et profanos, opera varia, scriptores historiae litterariae,philologos, epistolographos, rhetores et poetas

Vol. I. . -Lipsiae : Fritsch, 1750. - [28} Bl., 1-1000 pages

Vol II. .- Lipsiae : Fritsch, 1751. – 1000 – 1784 pages

BÜNAU, GrafHeinrich von (1697-1762) -- Johann Michael FRANCKE (1717-75). CatalogusBibliothecae Bunavianae. Leipzig: Bernard Christoph Breitkopf for the widow ofCaspar Fritsch, 1750-56.

Quarto (25cm, two volumes. Printed in double columns. Engraved and woodcut vignettes.(Some browning.) Contemporary German full calf bindings, gold-tooled spines(rebacked)

VERY RARE,no copies on Abebooks, last complete set sold for 7200$ at Christies

Two volumesof the best German private-library catalogue of the Enlightment. Bünau, a Saxonstatesman who was created an Imperial Count by Charles VII, formed his vastlibrary of upwards of forty-thousand volumes to aid his studies in Germanhistory; his Teutsche Kayser- und Reichs-Historie (1728-43) may be consideredone of the foundation stones of modern German historiography. The great arthistorian Johann Joachim Winckelmann was Count Bünau\'s librarian from 1748 to1754 and is likely to have had a hand in the cataloguing. After Bünau\'s deathFrancke became librarian of the Electoral Library in Dresden, which hadpurchased the Bibliotheca Bunaviana en-bloc in 1762.

Althoughthe catalogue remained unfinished, it is a model of its kind. Ebert called itan \"unsurpassed masterpiece\" and Bogeng \"the best catalogue of aGerman 18th-century private library.\" It takes a prominent place in theBibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, not least on account of the long andimportant section of bibliography and catalogues in vol. 1 (PRESENT HERE)Breslauer and Folter 104; Taylor p. 234.

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