La Baume le Blanc, Louis César de (1708-1780); duc de La Vallière; French bibliophile and collector, who formed two libraries, the first (between 1735 and 1768) at the château de Montrouge, the second (between 1768 and 1780) under the guidance of his librarian, Jean Joseph Rive, q.v.; see Jean Poche, `Le duc de la Vallière, ses collections et ses ventes', Miscellanées bibliographiques, 3 (1880), 70-113; Dominique Coq, `Le paragon du bibliophile français: le duc de la Vallière et sa collection', Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, II 317-31; D. M. Rogers, `Note no. 35. Crevenna and La Vallière', Book Collector, 3 (1954), 148-9: books bought by Crevenna from La Vallière were marked on the last or the penultimate flyleaf with a curly `V'; Michaud XLII 506; see Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque... de M. le duc de La Vallière, part 1 (Paris, 1783); the bids of the Bodleian Library seem to have been handled by Thomas Payne. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1708 to 1780. Period: 18th century.

27 entries:

• A-517(1) Augustinus Hipponensis — De civitate dei. — [Subiaco: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 12 June 1467. Folio.
• B-239(1) Biblia Latina — Mainz: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 14 Aug. 1462. Folio.
• B-369(2) Boccaccio, Giovanni — Genealogiae deorum. — Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472. Folio.
• B-375(2) Boccaccio, Giovanni — De montibus, silvis, fontibus. — Venice: [Vindelinus de Spira], 13 Jan. 1473. Folio.
• B-410(1) Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus — De arithmetica. — Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 20 May 1488. 4°.
• B-595(1) Burchiello — Sonetti [Italian]. — [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, c.1490]. 4°.
• C-006(1) Caesar, Gaius Julius — Commentarii (ed. Johannes Andreas de Bussis). — Rome: In Domo Petri de Maximis (Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz), 25 Aug. 1472. Folio.
• C-242(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Orationes. — Venice: Christophorus Valdarfer, [not after 9 Nov.] 1471. Folio.
• C-243(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Orationes. — [Venice]: Adam de Ambergau, 1472. Folio.
• C-256(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Epistolae ad familiares. — [Venice]: Johannes de Spira, [before 18 Sept.] 1469. Folio.
• C-258(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Epistolae ad familiares (ed. Johannes Andreas de Bussis). — Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [after 4 Nov. 1469]. Folio.
• C-317(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — De officiis, et al. — Venice: Jacobus de Fivizano, Lunensis, for Marcus de Comitibus, 1477. Folio.
• C-360(1) Clemens V, Pont. Max. — Constitutiones (cum apparatu Johannis Andreae). — Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 8 Oct. 1467. Folio.
• F-033(1) Festus, Sextus Pompeius — De verborum significatione (ed. Manilius Rhallus). — Rome: Johannes Reinhardi, 1 Oct. 1475. Folio.
• H-078(1) Hierocles Alexandrinus — In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum. — Rome: Arnoldus Pannartz, 21 Sept. 1475. 8°.
• H-216(1) Horatius Flaccus, Quintus — Carmina, et al. [with commentaries] (ed. Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus). — [Rome: Wendelinus de Wila or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, c.1474-5]. Folio.
• I-001(1) Image Du Monde — Livre de clergie nommé l'Image du monde. — [Paris: Antoine Caillaut, c.1492]. 4°.
• J-061(1) Jacobus de Voragine — Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Short version, with the life of S. Claudius. — Geneva: Adam Steinschaber, 25 Oct. 1480. Folio.
• L-065(1)? Leo I, Pont. Max. — Sermones. — [Basel: Michael Wenssler, c.1474-5]. Folio.
• L-086(1) Leonardus Matthaei de Utino — Sermones aurei de sanctis. — [Strasbourg: Martin Schott, not after 1481]. Folio.
• L-119(1) Livius, Titus — Historiae Romanae decades (ed. Petrus Justinus Philelphus). — Milan: Antonius Zarotus, for Johannes de Legnano, 23 Oct. 1480. Folio.
• L-127(1) Livius, Titus — Historiae Romanae decades [Italian]. — Rome: Apud Sanctum Marcum (Vitus Puecher), 1476. Folio.
• M-111(1) Martial de Paris, D'Auvergne — Les cinquante et un arrêts d'amour [French]. — [Paris]: Le Petit Laurens, [c.1500?]. 4°.
• M-286(1) Modestus — De vocabulis rei militaris, et al. — [Venice]: Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, 27 May 1474. 4°.
• N-119(1) Nonius Marcellus — De compendiosa doctrina (ed. Julius Pomponius Laetus, Antonius Volscus, and others). — [Rome]: Georgius Lauer, [c.1474-6.] Folio.
• P-309(1) Pius II, Pont. Max. — Dialogus contra Bohemos atque Thaboritas de sacra communione corporis Christi. — [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, not after 1472]. 4°.
• S-180(1) Serapion, Johannes, the younger — Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus (trans. Simon Januensis), et al. — Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 4 Aug. 1473. Folio.

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