Girardot de Préfond, Paul
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biographicalInformation1722-1808
otherInformationTimber merchant; see Clark, Collectors, 21: `Timber merchant who made two collections. The last one he bought from Gasq de La Lande and sold to McCarthy Reagh in 1769. Arms — a lion rampant sa. quartering gu. a chevron ar. — are illustrated in Techéner, Histoire de la bibliophilie, 1861-4, as a book stamp with the better known label ex Musaeo'; for the suggestion that he lived on into the nineteenth century see Henry Martin, Histoire de la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (Paris, 1900), 306; see Catalogue des livres du cabinet de Monsieur Girardot de Préfond (Paris: Guillaume François de Bure, 1757); there is a copy of the 1769 catalogue at Paris, BnF, nouvelles acquisitions françaises 12963 (ex informatione Roger Middleton); Jean Poche, 'Le duc de La Vallière, ses collections et ses ventes', Miscellanées bibliographiques, 3 (1880), 70-113. The New York Public Library, Getty, and Bodleian copies of the 1757 sale catalogue are annotated with prices (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012309059; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t02z2702p; http://purl.ox.ac.uk/uuid/b624418db98b487e967103361d793164).
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startYear1745
endYear1808
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