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Three parts in two volumes, folio (343 x 223mm), I (part I and II), pp. [ii], 103, [3]; [ii], 107, and 32 blank leaves; [ii], 265, [2], ll. 75 blank leaves, and pp. 40, 20 unnumbered; all pages numbered in ink, completed in ink on preprinted lithograph forms; detailed contents list to title; remains of tabs to volume II; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label reading 'Katalog'; a little rubbed, but overall fine. A very detailed manuscript library catalogue of the collection of the Fechenbach family on Castle Laudenbach in Franconia. The library was housed in two rooms, as detailed in the introduction to the second volume, and held in the region of 7000 titles. Most of the books listed are from the 18th and 19th century, clearly a library assembled for work and for reading purposes with quite an international outlook. In the 'belles lettres' section we find novels by Dumas, Cervantes, Cooper, Dickens, Scott, Shakespeare, and Trollope, but also, of course, Goethe & Schiller, Voltaire and Diderot. There is a substantial collection of French literature (over 300 titles), mostly with 18th century imprints, reflecting a time when French was the language of the educated classes in Germany. Quite a number of English authors were apparently read in French, like Smollett or Young. Each page is divided into columns with a running stock number, author and title, place of printing, year of publication, Fach /shelf mark, comments. The first volume contains both a subject catalogue for the first room and a shelf list. The books are classified under eleven headings: belle lettres, geography, history, fine arts & architecture, gardening, heraldry, politics, philosophy, pedagogy, natural sciences, mathematics - each with their own shelf mark. The second half of the catalogue is taken up with a listing in number order, allowing a better idea of the extent of the holdings: Belles lettres 1075, history 1116, geography 216, etc. - in all 3000 titles. The second volume covers the holdings of the second library room (prefaced by a partial repetition of some of the titles housed in room one), covering dictionaries and encyclopaedias, Latin and Greek classics, French books, Italian books, theology, law, economics, trade, agriculture, forestry, mining, military, medicine, and concluding with oversized and older books. The Fechenbach family were Franconian nobility, with the family seat in Laudenbach. A number of family members were high-ranking clerics, in particular the Würzburg canon Johann Philipp Karl Anton of Fechenbach to Laudenbach (1708-1779), who represented the Bishopric of Würzburg at the Reichstag in Regensburg, with influence well beyond Lower Franconia. No less important was the last Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (1795-1802) and first bishop of Würzburg (-1808), Georg Karl von Fechenbach to Laudenbach. With the well-known politician and journalist Karl von Fechenbach to Laudenbach (1836-1907) the Fechenbacher line became extinct. Part of the Fechenbach family library was auctioned off in 2005. An earlier manuscript library catalogue was produced in 1795 by Adam M. Köl, the private librarian of the Fechenbachs under the title 'Catalogus Bibliothecae Principalis Georgio-Carolinae. Verzeichniß der seinen hochfürstl. Gnaden Georg Karl privat eigenthümlichen Druck- und Handschriften, Landkarten, Risse, Kupferstiche und Gepräge'. N° de réf. du vendeur 4070
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