Girardot de Préfond, Paul (d. after c.1800); timber 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. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1800. Period: unknown century to 19th century.

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• A-369(1) Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius — Opera. — Rome: In domo Petri de Maximis (Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz), 28 Feb. 1469. Folio.
• A-518(1) Augustinus Hipponensis — De civitate dei. — Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1468. Folio.
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• D-069(1)? Diodorus Siculus — Bibliothecae historicae libri VI. — Bologna: [Balthasar Azoguidus], 1472. Folio and 4°.
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• P-044(1) Paulus II, Pont. Max. — Regulae ordinationes et constitutiones cancellariae apostolicae. — [Augsburg: Johann Wiener], 1476. 4°.
• R-086(1) Rodericus Zamorensis — Speculum vitae humanae. — Rome: Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, 31 July 1473. Folio.
• S-268(1) Speculum — Speculum humanae salvationis. — [The Netherlands: Prototypography, c.1474-5]. Folio.
• T-238(1) Tristan — Le roman du noble et vaillant Chevalier Tristan [French]. — Rouen: Jean Le Bourgeois, for Antoine Vérard, 30 Sept. 1489. Folio.
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