Procès Libri. Détournement de manuscrits, d`autographes, et de livres

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Procès Libri. Détournement de manuscrits,
d'autographes, et de livres: jugement - polèmiques
FC85 L6168.B870r
Finding aid prepared by Abby Lang.
Last updated on October 11, 2012.
University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library Print Collections
Procès Libri. Détournement de manuscrits, d'autographes, et de livres: jugement - polèmiques
Table of Contents
Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3
Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4
Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 8
Administrative Information........................................................................................................................... 9
Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................9
Bibliography.................................................................................................................................................10
Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 11
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Summary Information
Repository
University of Pennsylvania: Rare Book & Manuscript Library Print
Collections
Creator
Brunet, Gustave, 1807-1896
Creator
Celliez, Henry, 1806-1884
Creator
Cretaine, A.-C.
Creator
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Creator
Jubinal, Achille, 1810-1875
Creator
Laboulaye, Édouard, 1811-1883
Creator
Lamporecchi, Ranieri, 1776-1862
Creator
Lepelle de Bois-Gallais, Fr., (Frédéric)
Creator
Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869
Creator
Naudet, J., (Joseph), 1786-1878
Title
Procès Libri. Détournement de manuscrits, d'autographes, et de livres:
jugement - polèmiques
Call number
FC85 L6168.B870r
Date [inclusive]
1848-1861
Extent
2 volumes
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General Physical
Description note
25 published pamphlets, 4 newspaper clippings, and 4 manuscript notes.
Language
French
Abstract
The collection Procès Libri. Détournement de manuscrits, d'autographes,
et de livres: jugement – polèmiques houses materials from the Libri
affair, the accusations that Guglielmo Libri, an Italian scholar and
bibliophile, stole countless rare books and manuscripts from French
national libraries while employed as an inspector of the libraries. When
Libri was accused of theft, he and his supporters wrote a flurry of
pamphlets in Libri’s defense, disputing individual claims of theft and
arguing that the neglectful state of French libraries led to confusion over
the location of library books and to the prevalence of library-owned books
in the private market. The collection, dating from 1848 to 1861 and bound
together in two volumes, consists of manuscript table of contents for both
volumes and thirty-one items in total, including pamphlets, newspaper
clippings, a letter from Libri to his lawyer, Henry Celliez, and other
manuscript notes.
Cite as:
Procès Libri, 1848-1861, Rare Book & Manuscript Library Print Collections, University of
Pennsylvania.
Biography/History
Guglielmo Libri-Carrucci dalla Sommaia was born in 1803 in Florence, Italy. In the course of his life
this Tuscan count excelled as a mathematician, scientist, scholar of Italian scientific history, journalist,
book collector, and, most notoriously, as a book thief. Libri was a studious young man, skilled in French,
English, German, and Latin, and interested in mathematics, philosophy, and history. Even as a child Libri
was a book collector, purchasing rare editions in Florence by the age of 12, and producing catalogues of
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his own books by the age of 17 (Ruju and Mostert 61). He attended the University of Pisa and obtained
his doctorate in natural sciences in 1820. After receiving his doctorate he continued with his own studies
of mathematics and physics, and began publishing papers on mathematics that garnered international
attention from scholars. At the young age of twenty-one, Libri was appointed Professor of Mathematical
Physics at the University of Pisa. Throughout the early years of his career, Libri became interested in
researching the history of science, and eventually set-out to write a complete history of science in Italy.
His four-volume Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie was published between 1838 and 1841,
and this undertaking further fueled his passion for manuscripts, rare books, and autographs which were
the basis of his research.
Libri traveled to France twice as a young scholar, the first time in 1824, when he had the opportunity
to meet French scientists and political figures, attend a ball given by King Charles X, deliver a paper at
the Académie des Sciences, and form friendships with the astronomer and radical politician Dominique
François Arago and the historian and professor François Guizot, among others. He returned to France
again in 1830 shortly before the July revolution, and Libri participated with some of his friends in the
armed insurrection that made Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, the King of France. When he returned
to Italy, Libri became involved with politics there and began meeting with the secret political society of
Carbonari in efforts to establish a liberal constitutional government. He was exiled from Italy in 1831
because of his political activity, and this time fled to France to live and begin his career anew. With the
help of his friend Arago, Libri was able to become a French citizen, which allowed him to begin teaching
at the Collège de France. Shortly after, he was appointed to a position at the Sorbonne and was elected as
full member of the Académie des Sciences, again with the help of Arago, who was then the secretary of
the Académie des Sciences.
Libri had arrived in France with little money, but during the 1830s as he conducted research for the
Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie, he became known as the leading collector of scientific
and mathematical books and manuscripts of the time. He was able to build his collection with little
funds by buying on credit from booksellers and borrowing money from a contact in Italy, as well as his
mother. He was a bookseller as much as a book collector, and he had his mother buy books for him in
Italy, where prices were better than in France and England, which he sold abroad for a more favorable
profit. He maintained contacts in England and Germany who purchased books and manuscripts for him.
Libri conducted a series of auctions from his collection which helped fund further purchases, and he
also bought several large collections by auction. By 1841 Libri estimated his collection to contain 1,800
manuscripts, and in 1847 he estimated his printed books to number 40,000 volumes (Ruju and Mostert
162 and 166).
As a patron of libraries, particularly when he was conducting research for Histoire des sciences
mathématiques en Italie, Libri continuously criticized French libraries for their lack of care for the
books and manuscripts they held. He criticized libraries for losing books, for leaving them unattended,
for purchasing stolen books, and for theft by employees blamed on patrons. Libri was not alone in his
complaints, especially of the state of the Bibliothèque Royale in Paris. The Bibliothèque Royale had
no restrictions on how many books could be borrowed or for how long, so books could be borrowed
for a lifetime and then sold off or lost, and little or no records were kept of what books were borrowed,
by whom, and which librarian loaned the book. At this time French libraries were in a general state
of disarray. The Bibliothèque Royale was in the difficult process of becoming a public institution, the
Bibliothèque Nationale. The provincial libraries had been chaotic since the French Revolution, when
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thousands of books and manuscripts had been seized from clergy and aristocracy and brought to the
provincial libraries, where the librarians were so overwhelmed that scores of volumes were either stolen
or seized for the Bibliothèque Nationale by bibliographers sent from Paris.
Under Libri’s friend Guizot, who led the Ministry of Public Instruction, more regulations were eventually
put in place for the provincial libraries, yet it was not until 1837 that removing books and manuscripts
from public libraries was made illegal. The Ministry of Public Instruction asked provincial libraries for
catalogs of books and manuscripts in their possession and lists of missing items, and Libri suggested
to the Minister that a commission be formed to investigate the manuscript collections of the provincial
libraries and create catalogs of their holdings. The commission would send library inspectors to the
libraries to either work with the librarian to catalog the collections or to do it themselves (many of these
libraries had incomplete catalogs already). The catalogs would then be published together as a complete
catalog of all manuscripts in the public libraries of France. Libri was appointed as the Secretary of the
newly formed commission, as well as one of the inspectors. With this new position, Libri was given
increased access to manuscript collections, staying for extended periods at libraries, looking at collections
unsupervised, and asking librarians to allow him to work after hours. It is during this four year period that
Libri is accused of stealing countless books and manuscripts from the French public libraries. Libri retired
from the commission in 1846, having contributed only to the first volume of the Catalogue Général des
Manuscrits des Bibliothèques Publiques des Départements, which was published in 1849.
During his years as inspector Libri conducted large-scale theft of books and manuscripts from French
libraries. According to Ruju and Mostert, Libri’s collection of manuscripts contained over 90 manuscripts
from before the twelfth century, which even then were rarely available for sale (203). Libri is believed to
have stolen a number of these manuscripts from some of the provincial libraries he visited as inspector.
He spent a great deal of time at the Bibliothèque Mazarine, where he was given his own private work area
and was often noticed exploring areas closed to other patrons where uncatalogued and duplicate material
was kept. He developed the habit of requesting that librarians send particularly interesting or rare items
to his home, so that he could look over them unhurriedly and share with the rest of the committee, and
he may or may not have returned these items (McCrimmon 20). As more complaints and questions arose
about texts found missing after a visit from Libri, Libri denied any wrongdoing and continued to lament
the mishandling of French libraries. He did much to hide his thefts, such as improvising his recollections
and receipts of actual book purchases to include items acquired illegally, removing identifying marks
like library stamps, and rebinding and restoring books to remove marks of ownership and appear like a
different copy. He sent books to Italy to be bound in an Italian style to hide their provenance, and he even
forged inscriptions on some of his books and manuscripts to add to their value. Libri also collected old
paper and had restorers add blank leaves to the front and back of books so he could sell them as “perfect”
copies, and he was even found to have added false title pages and altered title pages to either increase a
book’s value or confuse its identity.
Suspicions also arose about Libri among his circle of friends and fellow bibliophiles because his
collection was so staggering and seemed incongruous with his salary as a professor. In 1842 Libri was
anonymously accused of theft from a library to the police. Some of the political foes Libri made during
his years in France joined in the accusations, and rumors increased over several years about Libri illegally
augmenting his collection from the libraries of France. Libri continuously maintained that the accusations
were political in nature, professional jealousies, or that he was accused in error. But Libri began to make
preparations to part with a large portion of his collection, and considered donating it to several libraries
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but ultimately did not. He instead negotiated with the British Museum for the sale of the manuscripts,
and though interested they could not meet the price he asked. In 1846, Libri sold the collection of 1,923
manuscripts to the Earl of Ashburnham for 8,000 pounds, requesting that the sale remain secret, though
rumors of the sale circulated anyway. He also conducted a large auction in Paris in 1847 of about 3,000
of his most valuable books. Despite these large sales Libri still maintained a collection of about 30,000
volumes, and collected about that many again from 1848 forward (McCrimmon 8).
During this time the police received more accusations about Libri, including an anonymous letter in 1845
that accused Libri of stealing 300,000 to 400,000 francs worth from libraries in the South of France,
having library stamps removed from the stolen books and then rebound in Italy, with one such book
then sold to the British Museum for 6,000 francs (Ruju and Mostert 239). The accusations were passed
along to M. Boucly, procurer du roi, who slowly conducted an investigation, issuing a report in 1848 that
accused Libri of theft and recommended legal action against him. This report was given to Libri’s friend
Guizot, who was by this time the Prime Minister of France, and Guizot dismissed the report but kept it in
his office and notified Libri of its existence. It might have been forgotten there had the revolution of 1848
not broken out shortly after, with revolutionaries overtaking the Foreign Ministry building and Guizot
fleeing to England. The Boucly report was later found in the possession of the new Foreign Minister and
it was soon published in Le National and Le Moniteur Universel. In the time between its discovery and
publication, Libri was tipped off to impending legal action against him; while in attendance at a meeting
of the Institut, another member, who had been told of the discovery of the report, slipped him a note that
sternly warned Libri to never return to the Institut again. Libri left immediately and began packing his
library and destroying papers. He sent off 18 crates of books and manuscripts to England, stashed some
books and papers with friends and in unoccupied houses in Paris, burnt incriminating papers in his hearth,
and fled from France.
The Boucly report was published in March of 1848, and the new government began a thorough
investigation into Libri almost immediately, while Libri began writing profusely in his own defense. The
ensuing Libri affair lasted many years, with the publication of pamphlets by Libri and his supporters in
his defense in the years before and after Libri was found guilty and condemned in the Acte d'accusation
of April 1850. Libri’s first pamphlet, published in 1848, the Réponse au Rapport de M. Boucly Publié
dans le Moniteur Universel du 19 mars 1848, was a lengthy critique of Boucly’s investigation and
allegations against him, as well as insistence that the accusations were political in nature, stemming
from his alliance with Guizot, his views on Italian politics, and other political controversies from his
past. Libri tried to build arguments in his defense with the little evidence and records he had with him in
England, employing friends in France to do research in libraries into some of the books and manuscripts
in question. In 1849 Libri published a 327 page defense, Lettre à M. de Falloux, where he argued that
because of the disorganized state of French libraries, bookshops in Europe were replete with books
that had the stamps of French libraries, so it was not unusual for his own collection to have the same. It
also contained a long list of books that had once belonged to public libraries of France and Italy, along
with the date, price of sale, and the bookseller from whom Libri purchased the book. However, the
Acte d'accusation of 1850 was a stronger indictment of Libri's thefts than the Boucly report had been; it
detailed at length the loss of specific books from specific libraries and the discovery of library stamps
and cut-out autograph letters among the papers Libri had left behind in Paris. Notably, it reported on
the missing leaves from the Institut's manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, which were shown to have
disappeared immediately after Libri looked at the manuscripts and some of which were included in
Libri's sale to the Earl of Ashburnham. Despite the Acte, Libri still had strong support from some of
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his contacts, including Guizot, the medievalist professor Achille Jubinal, the author and journalist Paul
Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob), the bibliographer Gustave Brunet, and the historian and author Prosper
Mérimée. Pamphlets by Libri and his supporters appeared about the accusations for years after 1850, yet
the conviction stood.
Libri was sentenced in absentia to ten years imprisonment, but he refused to return to France to stand
trial or serve the sentence. Libri had supporters abroad and within France, but the general sentiment
in France and in the French media was of certainty of his guilt. Libri passed away in 1869, and it
wasn’t until years after, in 1883, that his guilt was absolutely proven. Léopold Delisle, the head of the
Bibliothèque Nationale from 1874 to 1905, was able to prove that 166 of the items that Libri sold to
Lord Ashburnham had originally belonged to French national libraries, and those items were eventually
returned to France. Because of Libri's methods of theft, the actual number of items he stole is not known.
Libri’s role in the history of French libraries is peculiarly dichotomous; he is known as a book thief of
grand proportions who sold off France's precious manuscripts abroad to perhaps never be retrieved,
but also as an extraordinary book collector whose critiques of French public libraries influenced the
improvement of library organization and increased care of rare materials.
Scope and Contents
The collection Procès Libri houses materials from the Libri affair on the subject of Guglielmo Libri and
the accusations that this Italian scholar and bibliophile stole countless rare books and manuscripts from
French national libraries while employed as an inspector of libraries. When Libri was accused of theft, he
and his supporters wrote a flurry of pamphlets in Libri’s defense, disputing individual claims of theft and
arguing that the neglectful state of French libraries led to confusion over the location of library books and
the prevalence of library-owned books in the private market in general. The collection, dating from 1848
to 1861 and bound together in two volumes, consists of manuscript table of contents for both volumes and
thirty-one items in total, including pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and manuscript notes.
The collection is organized into two series, “Tome 1” and “Tome 2”, and the items within both series are
listed in the order they appear in the volumes, which is roughly chronological. “Tome 1” contains three
manuscript notes and eleven pamphlets, and “Tome 2” contains one manuscript note, four newspaper
clippings, and fourteen pamphlets.
Of particular interest may be the manuscript letter written by Guglielmo Libri in 1851 (item 1) to his
lawyer, Henry Celliez, about the accusation that Libri had stolen the 1475 Bologna edition of Petrarch's
the Trionfi, among many others, from the Bibliothèque Mazarine, and the subsequent discovery of the
book still on the shelves of the library. With this letter is a manuscript note, possibly in Celliez’s hand,
listing six of the titles that Libri was accused of stealing from the Bibliothèque Mazarine, followed by a
list of bibliographic details to research in Libri’s defense, perhaps in reaction to Libri’s letter.
Also of interest is the fragment of a manuscript letter (item 24) written and signed by Achille Jubinal, a
medievalist and former professor at Montpellier and supporter of Libri, in regard to the contested books
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of the Bibliothèque Mazarine. This is followed by a pamphlet written by Jubinal, Un Nouvel Épisode de
l’Affaire Libri (item 25), which concerns the news that the stolen texts had been found still on the shelves
of the Bibliothèque Mazarine by the paleographer Joseph Balthazar Silvestre. Jubinal's autograph appears
at the head of item 22, an untitled pamphlet also about the reappearance of the stolen texts. Two of the
pamphlets in Libri's defense written by Jubinal have manuscript gift inscriptions by Jubinal to unknown
recipients (items 18 and 19).
Published items of note in the collection include the first written defense by Libri, the Réponse de M.
Libri au Rapport de M. Boucly (item 1); Libri's second pamphlet, the 328 page criticism of his persecution
(item 2); the Acte d'accusation of 1850, published in the newspaper Le Droit: Journal des Tribunaux
(items 14 and 15); and the petition of 1861 to the senate on Libri's behalf (item 28), signed by his
supporters, including Prosper Mérimée, François Guizot, Paulin Paris, and Édouard Laboulaye.
Administrative Information
University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library Print Collections
Finding aid prepared by Abby Lang.
Sponsor
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging
Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions
Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript
Library with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce the material.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
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Arago, F., (François), 1786-1853
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, J., (Jules), 1805-1895
Boucly, Félix
Celliez, Henry, 1806-1884
Falloux du Coudray, Alfred-Frédéric-Pierre, comte de, 1811-1886
Guizot, M., (François), 1787-1874
Silvestre, J. B., (Joseph Balthazar), b. 1791
Subject(s)
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
Book collectors
Book thefts
Libraries and booksellers
Libraries--France
Bibliography
The Case of M. Libri. Reprinted from “Bentley’s Miscellany,” for July 1, 1852. London: Richard Bentley,
1852.
McCrimmon, Barbara. "The Libri Case." The Journal of Library History. 1:1 (1966): 7-32.
Ruju, P. Alessandra Maccioni Ruju and Marco Mostert. The Life and Times of Guglielmo Libri
(1802-1869). Hilversum: Verloren Publishers, 1995.
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Collection Inventory
Tome 1.
Item
Manuscript letter from M. Libri to Henri Celliez, avocat à la cour d'Appel; with
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corresponding manuscript note possibly in the hand of Celliez regarding Libri's letter;
and with a portion of a manuscript leaf with Celliez's address (possibly a portion of an
envelope).
Notes:
Letter from Libri is dated at head: "Londres le 12 avril 1851, 14 Avenue Road, Regent's
Park". Signed at end "G. Libri". In the top left corner of the letter is written in a different
hand, likely Celliez's, "Réponse 17 avril 1851." The letter discusses the accusation that
Libri stole several titles from the Bibliothèque Mazarine, particularly the 1475 Bologna
edition of Petrarch's the Trionfi. The paleographer M. Silvestre claimed to find the copy of
the Trionfi still on the shelf of the Bibliothèque Mazarine, and in this letter Libri implores
his lawyer to verify the discovery. The corresponding manuscript note appears to be a list
composed by Celliez after receiving Libri's letter; it lists the six contested titles purportedly
missing from the Bibliothèque Mazarine followed by a numbered list of bibliographic
details about the books to research in Libri's defense. The corresponding address leaf
appears to be Celliez's address in Libri's hand, perhaps a portion of the envelope that
contained Libri's letter. Libri and his supporters later touted the discovery of the Trionfi
by M. Silvestre as evidence to back up Libri's claims. It was subsequently shown in a report
by Senator Bonjean in 1860 that the Bibliothèque Mazarine had in fact owned two copies
of the same edition of the Trionfi, so the presence of one did nothing to prove Libri's
innocence.
Réponse de M. Libri au rapport de M. Boucly.
2
Imprint:
Paris: chez tous les libraires [imprimé par Plon Frères, rue de Vaugirard, 36] 1848.
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Dimensions:
115, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Lettre à M. de Falloux ministre de l'instruction publique et des cultes, contenant le récit
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d'une odieuse persécution et le jugement porté sur cette persécution par les hommes les plus
compétents et les plus considérables de l'Europe; suivie d'un grand nombre de documents
relatifs aux spoliations qui ont eu lieu, à différentes époques dans les bibliothèques et les
archives de la France. Par G. Libri, membre de l'Institut, etc.
Imprint:
Paris: Paulin, éditeur, rue de Richelieu, 60 [Imprimerie de Hennuyer et Ce., rue Lemercier,
24, Batignolles], 1849.
Dimensions:
327, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Provenance note:
With an inscription at head of front wrapper: "À M. Gerente. Hommage de l'auteur".
Lettre à M. Libri membre de l'Institut, etc. au sujet de quelques passages de sa lettre à M.
de Falloux, ministre de l'instruction publique relatifs à la Bibliothèque Nationale, par J.
Naudet, membre de l'Institut, administrateur général de la Bibliothèque Nationale.
Imprint:
Paris: de l'imprimerie de Crapelet, rue de Vaugirard, 9, 1849.
Dimensions:
[4], 41, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Provenance note:
With a partially excised inscription at head of front wrapper--"Monsie[ur]" is still visible.
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Lettre à M. Naudet membre de l'Institut, administrateur général de la Bibliothèque
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Nationale en réponse à quelques passages de sa lettre à M. Libri, membre de l'Institut, etc.,
par A.-C. Cretaine, libraire.
Imprint:
Paris: Durand, libraire, rue des Grès, 5 [de l'imprimerie de Crapelet, rue de Vaugirard, 9],
1849.
Dimensions:
8 p. ; 23 cm.
Lettres à M. Hatton, juge d'instruction, au sujet de l'incroyable accusation intentée
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contre M. Libri, contenant de curieux détails sur toute cette affaire; par M. Paul Lacroix
(Bibliophile Jacob), membre de la Commission des Monuments Historiques et du Comité
des Documents Inédits de l'Histoire de France.
Imprint:
Paris: Paulin, rue Richelieu, 68 [Imprimerie de Hennuyer et Ce., rue Lemercier, 24.
Batignolles], 1849.
Dimensions:
64 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:
With a manuscript inscription ("Épreuve") on front wrapper.
Les cent et une. Lettres bibliographiques à M. l'administrateur général de la Bibliothèque
Nationale par M. Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob), membre de la Commission des
Monuments Historiques et du Comité des Monuments Inédits de l'Histoire de France.
Première Série.
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Imprint:
Paris: rue Richelieu, 68 [Imprimerie de Hennuyer et Ce., rue Lemercier, 24. Batignolles],
1849.
Dimensions:
32 p. ; 23 cm.
8
Première série; 2me livraison.
Imprint:
Paris: Paulin, rue Richelieu, 68, 1849.
Dimensions:
33-72 p. ; 23 cm.
9
Imprint:
Dimensions:
73-116 p. ; 23 cm.
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Imprint:
Dimensions:
117-156 p. ; 23 cm.
Lettre à M. Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob), membre de la Commission des Monuments
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Historiques et du Comité des Monuments Inédits de l'Histoire de France, contenant: un
curieux épisode de l'histoire des Bibliothèques publiques, avec quelques faits nouveaux
relatifs à M. Libri et à l'odieuse persécution dont il est l'objet, par Achille Jubinal, exprofesseur à la Faculté des lettres de Montpellier.
Imprint:
Paris: Paulin, éditeur, rue de Richelieu, 60 [Imprimerie Hennuyer et Ce, 24, rue Lemercier,
à Batignolles], 1849.
Dimensions:
14, [2] p. ; 23 cm.
Lettre au Bibliophile Jacob au sujet de l'étrange accusation intentée contre M. Libri,
membre de l'Institut, contenant des recherches sur les livres à la reliure de Grolier, sur les
volumes elzeviriens non rognés et sur quelques particularités bibliographiques. Par Gustave
Brunet, membre de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux.
Imprint:
Paris: Paulin, éditeur, rue de Richelieu, 60 [Imprimerie de Hennuyer et Ce, rue Lemercier,
24. Batignolles], 1849.
Dimensions:
32 p. ; 23 cm.
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Tome 2.
Item
Lettre de M. Libri à M. le Ministre de la Justice, à Paris ; Lettre de M. Libri à M. F****, à
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Paris.
Imprint:
Londres: s.n., 1850.
Dimensions:
2 sheets, (3 p.) ; 28 x 21 cm., folded to 22 x 14 cm.
Acte d'accusation 22 juin 1850. Cour d'assises de la Seine. Présidence de M. Barbou.
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Audience du 22 juin 1850. Affaire Libri.-- Soustraction de livres, manuscrits et autographes
dans des bibliothèques publiques (newspaper clipping from Le Droit Journal des
Tribunaux, 3 août 1850).
Provenance note:
With a French revenue stamp in red ink at upper margin ("Timbre cen. 4 ... Seine").
Acte d'accusation 22 juin 1850. Cour d'assises de la Seine. Présidence de M. Barbou.
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Audience du 22 juin 1850. Affaire Libri.-- Soustraction de livres, manuscrits et autographes
dans des bibliothèques publiques (newspaper clipping from Le Droit Journal des
Tribunaux, 4 Aout 1850).
Lettre de M. Libri à M. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, administrateur du Collège de France.
Imprint:
Londres: Barthès et Lowell, Great Marlborough Street [imprimé par Schulze et Cie, 13,
Poland Street], 1850.
Dimensions:
xvi, 31, [1] ; 22 cm.
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Note:
With manuscript date at upper margin of front wrapper ("25 juillet 1850").
Lettre de M. Libri à M. Le Président de l'Institut de France.
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Imprint:
Londres: Barthès et Lowell, Great Marlborough Street [imprimé par Schulze et Cie, 13,
Poland Street], 1850.
Dimensions:
72 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:
With manuscript date at upper margin of front wrapper ("5 sept. 1850.")
Une lettre inédite de Montaigne accompagnée de quelques recherches à son sujet
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précédée d'un advertisement suivie de plusiers fac-simile et de l'indication détaillée d'un
grand nombre de soustractions et mutilations qu'a subies depuis un certain nombre d'années
le Département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Par Achille Jubinal, exprofesseur de Faculté.
Imprint:
Paris: Chez Didron, Place Saint-André des Arts, 30 [Imp. Maulde et Renou, r. Bailleul,
9-11], 1850.
Dimensions:
116 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Provenance note:
With inscription at upper margin of front wrapper ("Offert par l'auteur, A. J.").
Réponse de M. Achille Jubinal aux observations du conservatoire de la Bibliothèque
Nationale sur une brochure relative à un autographe de Montaigne.
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Imprint:
Paris: Panckouke, rue des Poitevins, 14, 1850.
Dimensions:
8 p. ; 23 cm.
Provenance note:
With inscription at upper margin of front wrapper ("De la part de l'auteur, A. Jubinal").
Encore une lettre inédite de Montaigne, accompagnée d'une lettre à M. Jubinal, relative
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aux livres imprimés et manuscrits, aux autographs et aux divers fragments précieux qui ont
été soustraits à différentes époques de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, et qui se trouvent
en Angleterre. Par Fr. Lepelle de Bois-Gallais. Avec un fac-simile.
Imprint:
Londres: Barthès et Lowell, Great Marlborough Street [Imprimé par Schulze et Cie, 13,
Poland Street], MDCCCL [1850].
Dimensions:
vii, [1], 32 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : facsims. ; 22 cm.
Mémoire sur la persécution qu'on fait souffrir en France à M. Libri; par M. Ranieri
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Lamporecchi, Président de l'Ordre des Avocats Toscans.... Seconde édition.
Imprint:
Londres: Barthès et Lowell, Great Marlborough Street [Imprimé par Schulze et Cie, Poland
Street], MDCCCL [1850].
Dimensions:
82, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
M. Libri, ancien membre de l'Institut de France, ancien professeur au Collège de France
(expulsé de ces deux corps pars décrets du Président de la République Française)...
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Imprint:
[Londres]: s.n., [1851].
Dimensions:
4 p. ; 21 cm.
Provenance note:
With the autograph of M. Jubinal at the head of p. [1].
Outrages à des Magistrats (newspaper clipping from Revue des deux Mondes, 15 avril
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1852).
Fragment of a manuscript letter from M. Jubinal on the subject of the Bibliothèque
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Mazarine and Un Nouvel Épisode, undated.
Un nouvel épisode de l'affaire Libri ou lettre à M. le Directeur du Journal l'Athenaeum,
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par Achille Jubinal.
Imprint:
Paris: A la Librairie Archéoligique de Didron, rue Hautefeuille, 13 [Imprimerie de
Hennuyer et Ce., rue Lemercier, 24. Batignolles], 1851
Dimensions:
8 p. ; 23 cm.
The case of M. Libri. Reprinted from Bentley's Miscellany for July 1, 1852.
Imprint:
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852.
Dimensions:
12 p. ; 22 cm.
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Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts, chiefly upon vellum,
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in various languages of Europe and the East, formed by M. Guglielmo Libri ... which will
be sold by auction by S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... on Monday, 28th of March,
1859, and seven following days...
Imprints:
London: Printed by J. Davy and Sons, 137, Long Acre, 1859.
Dimensions:
xxi, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Note:
This item is Libri's introduction to the catalogue, all other pages of the catalogue are
wanting.
Pétition adressée au sénat sur l'affaire de M. Libri avec une note à l'appui signée par
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MM. Guizot, le marquis d'Audiffret, Prosper Mérimée, Édouard Laboulaye, Victor Leclerc,
Paulin Paris, Jules Pelletier, Alfred de Wailly, Romain Merlin, et Henry Celliez.
Imprint:
Paris: Typographie [et] Imprimerie de Ch. Lahure et Cie., rue de Fleururs, 9, et de l'Ouest,
21, 1861.
Dimensions:
8 p. ; 22 cm.
Mémoire sur les irrégularités de la procédure criminelle suivie contre M. Libri et
sur l'application de l'art. 441 du code d'instruction criminelle pour la révision de cette
procédure par M. Henry Celliez, avocat à la Cour Impériale.
Imprint:
Paris: Imprimerie de Ad. R. Lainé et J. Havard, rue Jacob, 56, 1861.
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Dimensions:
iv, 92 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplément au mémoire sur les irrégularités de la procédure criminelle suivie contre
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M. Libri et sur l'application de l'article 441 du code d'instruction criminelle pour la
révision de cette procédure.
Imprint:
[Paris]: Imprimerie de Ad. R. Lainé et J. Harvard, rue Jacob, 56, [1861].
Dimensions:
16 p. ; 23 cm.
Provenance note:
With a French revenue stamp in black ink on p. 2 ("Timbre imperial. Seine. Cen. 5")
M. Libri n'est pas contumax. Consultation de M. Henry Celliez, avocat à la Cour
Impériale sur la petition adressée au sénat suivie de l'adhésion de M. Édouard Laboulaye ...
et d'une adresse des députés au Parlement Italien.
Imprint:
Paris: Imprimerie de Ad. R. Lainé et J. Havard, rue Jacob, 56, 1861.
Dimensions:
14 p. ; 23 cm.
Provenance note:
With a French revenue stamp in black ink on p. 6 ("Timbre imperiale. Seine. Cen. 5").
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