, an eminent bookseller at Paris, is well known to the learned throughout
, an eminent bookseller at
Paris, is well known to the learned throughout Europe for
the able assistance he has afforded to the study of bibliography. Of his personal history very little is related by
his countrymen, unless that he was a man of high character
in trade; and, as appears from his works, more intimately
acquainted with the history of books and editions than perhaps any man of his time in any country. He died July
15, 1782. He first published his “Museum Typographicum,
” Paris, Bibliographic Instructive,
” Essay upon Bibliography.
” The merits of this work are universally acknowledged. The abbe Rive having attacked this work with
considerable asperity, De Bure replied in “Appel aux Savans,
” Reponse a une Critique de la
Bibliographic Instructive,
”