Histoire des plus illustres et scavans hommes de leurs siecles
tant de l'Europe que de l'Asie, Afrique & Amerique : avec leurs portraits en tailles-douces, tirez sur les veritables originaux
by André Thevet
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Portraits, Early works to 1800, Dictionaries, Biography, French, HISTORIA, BIOGRAFIASShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Expanded ed. of: Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres, 1584.
Vol. 1 has 2 engraved frontispieces (arms of Cardinal de Buillon, to whom work is dedicated, and angel bearing his monogram); also ports. of Buillon and of Thevet. Nearly all biographies are preceded by engraved port. of the subject, printed as a plate.
Binding: calfskin, rebacked. Spines gilt tooled, edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges sprinkled red & brown.
Bookplates of R[ichar]d Benyon de Beauvoir, Englefield House, Berks. Signature of May Peabody at head of title, v. 4 & 8.
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