Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne entier de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques.
By: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France)
Contributor(s): Boze, Claude Gros de | Tallemant, Paul
Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, MDCCXXIII[1723].Description: 318, [12] p. : front., ill.; 43 cm.Subject(s): Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 | Medals -- France | France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715Ownership: C&M Library copy has handwritten notes on and before the title page and a bookplate "Z Biblioteki Kosseckich"
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Title within ornamental border, engr.; title vignette.
Text within ornamental border.
Leaves (printed on one side only) have each obverse and reverse of one medal followed by descriptive letterpress.
Preface (by P. Tallemant) of edition of 1702 (1st ed.) suppressed shortly after publication of the work and found only in 50? copies.
Text by F. Charpentier, P. Tallemant, J. Racine, N. Boileau-Despréaux, J. de Tourreil, E. Renaudot, A. Dacier, E. Pavillon and J.P. Bignon; engraved by G. Edelinck, Simonneau, Audran, and B. Picard.
This edition by C. Gros de Boze.
C&M Library copy has handwritten notes on and before the title page and a bookplate "Z Biblioteki Kosseckich".