Some months after the death of Christiaan Huygens in 1695, his private library was sold by auction. G. W. Leibniz ordered 121 titles through his Dutch agents. The following essay gives the story of the acquisition, the list of the books which Leibniz bought, most of which are today in the possession of the Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek Hannover, and the marginal notes of Christiaan Huygens in eleven of these books.
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