Creator
Naudé, Gabriel.
Title
Bibliothecae Cordesianae catalogus cum indice titulorum.
Coverage
Paris
Publisher
A. Vitray
Date
1643
Description
Although created to facilitate the sale of the 8,000-volume library of Jean des Cordes (1560–1642), canon of Limoges, this catalogue is neither a book auction catalogue nor a dealer catalogue, but the record of a “sale by private treaty.” It was the first catalogue of a private library to be classified strictly by subject, an arrangement so novel and useful that for the rest of the seventeenth century the book continued to serve both as a general bibliography and as a guide to forming a private library.
Source
Purchased from the Harper Fund.