2941 lots (1450 drawings and other; 1491 prints).

Two states known; the second has "Fautes à corriger" added to p. 418; earlier state does not have these.

Signatures: A, ²A-2C 2D² (last leaf blank).

Head- and tail-pieces.

The plates include: etched, ornamental title page by Moreau le jeune; frontispiece engraved by Choffard after C.N. Cochin; four etchings by Mariette: two landscapes (one folded) after Guercino, "Le Pape Adrien VI et quatre Cardinaux" after Perino del Vaga, and one study with five heads, found in two states in this catalogue. One state has date only "1724" in lower right; other state has also added in lower left: L. Carrache; in lower right preceding date: Mariette sc.

"Errata": p. vij.

"Livres d'estampes, sciences et arts, par ordre de faculté": p. 373-418.

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 2453.

Blogie, J. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes de livres imprimés, II, 12-13

Date of auction: Nov. 15, 1775-Jan. 30, 1776.

Place of auction: Paris.

Library has five copies; each is the state with "Fautes à corriger" added to p. 418.

Library's copy 1: lacks the frontispiece; thick paper impression; has the 5-head etching in state with date and added names. Annotated in brown ink with all buyers and prices; in the same hand at end, an additional page of notes on lots 1025-1030 of the prints. Binding: gilt-tooled red morocco; green spine label with gilt binder's title: Catalogue de Mariette; gilt edges; marbled endpapers. Bookseller's label on front pastedown: Pierre Berès, Paris. Green, blind embossed label of Clifford Duits on recto of front flyleaf. Book label of "Jacobsen" (repeated as "Jacobsen, maire,") on back pastedown.

Library's copy 2: lacks the frontispiece; has the 5-head etching in state with date only. Part of that etching and of one of the landscapes cut away at time of binding. Paintings and drawings annotated with all prices and most buyers in brown ink, but many names cut away in binding; prints annotated with prices in same hand. Binding: marbled papers over boards, quarter brown calf, blind tooled spine with gilt ruling, green morocco label, and gilt binder's title: Catalogue de Basan I; marbled edges. Marked in blue ink on verso of front flyleaf: E.K. Waterhouse; in brown ink: Gen. Fleming Decr. 19. 1LC2 --/<. 2 vols.

Library's copy 3: has the 5-head etching in state with date and added names. Paintings and drawings annotated with prices in pencil and in brown ink; prints annotated with most prices in brown ink. A few lots noted "withdrawn" in same hand. Binding: tan modern cloth with green spine label and binder's title: Basan -- Cabinet Mariette.

Library's copy 4: has the 5-head etching in state with date only. Some lots of the books of prints marked in brown ink; some pages of same marked in brown ink "f" [?]. Binding: marbled papers over boards, quarter green calf with gilt ruling and binder's title: Catalogue de Mariette. On title page: monogram stamp (E E C C; motto: Fato prudentia major) of Edward Cheney (1803-1886).

Library's copy 5: lacks the frontispiece and the Mariette etchings. Annotated with a few prices and other notes; lots 279 and 380 of the prints are noted: a moi. Binding: yellow marbled papers over boards, quater tan calf with gilt-tooled spine; red morocco label with gilt binder's title: Catalog de tableaux; green morocco label with gilt volume number: I; red edges.