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Les Hommes Illustres qui ont paru en France pendant se siecle: avec leurs portraits au naturel.
Paris: chez Antoine Dezallier, 1696-1700. 2 vols. Folio (409x272 mm). Engraved title vignettes. Engraved additional title, engraved portrait of the author after Tortebat, 102 other engraved portraits, 1 engraved tailpiece. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt. Condition : slight spotting to margins; joints split, extremities rubbed, small section of leather on upper cover torn away. Provenance : J. Hewett (inscription dated 1756); F.F. Foljambe (small 18th-century ownership stamp at foot of each title). A fine set including the portraits of Antoine Arnauld and Blaise Pascal (with the accompanying text leaves). These two plates were apparently later suppressed. Lipperheide Fb25.