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1821 Peignot Historical & Bibliographical Dictionary, Ex Libris Patrice Salin Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Description: Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique Abrégé des Personnages Illustres, Célèbres ou Fameux, de tous les siècles et de tous les pays du monde, avec les dieux et les héros de la mythologie par Gabrial Peignot Volume 2 (GAAL ? MYT.) and Volume 3 (NAAM. ? ZIPOE) (Missing Volume 1) Haut-Coeur et Gayet, Paris 1821 (V1) and 1822 (V2). First editions. In French. Half leather. Color paper-covered boards with black leather ribbed spines, gilt spine titles, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, marbled page edges, 69 (combined total) nice engraved full page plates, each with 12 portraits, of some of the persons included in the dictionary in the rear of the volumes. Handsome personal bookplate of Patrice Salin on front pastedowns. It includes his motto: " Tel que je suis, prends moi." [See French Book-plates: A Handbook for Ex-libris Collectors. Walter Hamilton ? 1892]. Patrice Salin was the director of the library and archives of the Conseil d'Etat at the time the famous library in the Palais d?Orsay was burnt by the Communards during the suppression of the Paris Commune in 1871. A great many irreplaceable manuscripts and rare books were destroyed in that fire. Salin was one of the authors of the catalogue raisonne that was published subsequently that described the destroyed books. ?Étienne-Gabriel Peignot was a French bibliographer, born at Arc-in-Barrois (Haute-Marne) on May 15 1767, died in Dijon on August 14 1849. Initially lawyer in Besancon, Gabriel Peignot was a librarian and inspector of various institutions, successively: librarian of the central School of the Haute-Saône with Vesoul under the Directory, the chief of the college of Vesoul in 1803, inspector of the book shop in Dijon in 1813, headmaster of the college of this city in 1815 and inspector of the studies of the Academy of Saone-et-Loire. He was member of the Celtic Academy of Paris, and several literary companies. He was one of the most famous authors of bibliographical works of his time. Pierre Larousse indicates in his edition of the XIXe century that ?Peignot was the most erudite bibliographer of this century. His scholarship was immense. To the thorough science of the books, he joined an enlightened criticism. [...] His bibliographical taste had become a passion whose old books were mainly the object. This scholar spiritual and merry, hard and not involved, composed an innumerable quantity of small writings, the majority drawn with small number, and extremely required of the curious one; they treat characteristics prickly or little known.? ? From Wikipedia (Poorly translated from the French} CONDITION: Very Good. (Covers have light edge wear and moderate corner wear, light rubbing to paper. Age tanning of paper. A few small corner creases and small corner tear on two leaves of Volume 3. Unmarked contents. Tight bindings.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items. ( Click here to view all of our auctions ) Shipping and Payment Information Shipping : DOMESTIC Domestic Media Mail shipping, including Delivery Confirmation and Insurance, is standard. This applies to any address in the US and Puerto Rico, as well as to APO addresses. 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