Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les sciences et arts : qui composoient le cabinet de feu Mr. Mariette, controleur général de la Grande Chancellerie de France ...
A Paris auction catalogue of 1775, compiled by the printseller François Basan and printed by Guillaume-Nicolas Desprez, listing the drawings, prints and curiosities of the collector Pierre-Jean Mariette for dealers and bidders. Pages carry woodcut headpieces of scrolling foliage with artists' tools, letterpress fragments, and brown ink annotations of prices and buyers' marks in an eighteenth-century hand.
