Description: [AUVIGNY, Jean du Castre d' (1712-1743); PERAU, Gabriel Louis; TURPIN, François Henri]. Les vies des hommes illustres de la France depuis le commencement de la Monarchie jusqu'à présent. A Amsterdam. Et se vend A Paris, chez Knapen, Libraire-Imprimeur, au bas du Pont Saint Michel. 1739-1775. Hardcover. Complete in 27 volumes. Leather-bound. Duodecimo (170 x 100 mm.), pp. [xii], (2), 435, (25); (4), 479, (27); (4), 539; (4), 616; (4), 506; (4), 440; (4), 531; [xii], 564; (8), 531; (4), 590; (4), 534; (4), 584; (4), 618; (2), 576; (2), 731; (4), 715; (2), 592; (4), 472; (4), 592; (6), 518; (2), 441; (2), 406; [xii], 516; (4), [xlii], 480; (2), 432; (4), [xvi], 402, 179; [xx], 316, 162, (6). Volumes 1-12 by J. Du Castre d'Auvigny; volumes 13-23 & 27 by G. L. Calabre Perau; volumes 24-26 by M. Turpin. French text. Handsomely and uniformly bound in contemporary marbled calf, spines in six compartments gilt, morocco lettering pieces in second and third compartments, red-dyed page edges, marbled endpapers, half-titles, title-pages with device, decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces, foot- and shoulder-notes, tables and indexes. Condition: Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure with all hinges intact. Minor rubbing to extremities, a few volumes with trivial chipping to spine ends, covers remarkably well preserved. The textblock similarly well preserved, some sporadic light browning and spotting. An excellent complete set and scarce thus. Volume 1: (1739) Suger, Abbé de St Denis; Guillaume de Blois; Guerin; Pierre de Villebon; Mathieu de Vendôme; Pierre la Brosse; Enguerrand de Marigny; Pierre de la Forest; Jean de la Grange; Jean de Montagu; Pierre des Essards; George de la Tremouille; Jacques Cœur; Jean de la Balue; Guillaume Briçonnet; Florimond Robertet. Volume 2: (1739) George d'Amboise, Jacques de Beaune, Antoine Duprat, Françoise de Tournon, Charels de Lorraine, Françoise d'O, Secrétaires d'Etat. Volume 3: (1769) Maximilien de Béthune, Concini, Marechal d' Ancre, Charles d'Albert. Volume 4: (1769) Le Cardinal de Richelieu, Charles de L'Aubespine. Volume 5 (1769) le Cardinal Mazarin, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Nicolas Fouquet, François Sublet, Michel de Tellier, Hugue de Lionne. Volume 6: (1769) François Michel Le Tellier, Louis François Marie Le Tellier, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Simon Arnaud D'Andilly, Michel Chamillard. Volume 7: (1771) Charles Martel, Raoul ou Rodolphe, Simon, Gaucher de Chatillon, Plivier de Clisson, Jean le Maingre de Boucicaut. Volume 8: (1771) Bertrand Du Guesclin, Jean Comte de Dunois. Volume 9: (1769) Louis de la Trémoille, Gaston de Foix, Yve d'Alegre, Le Chevalier Bayard. Volume 10: (1770) L'amiral de Bonivet, Charle Duc de Bourbon, Claude de Lorraine, François duc de Guise. Volume 11: (1769) Charles de Cosse, Anne De Montmorenci. Volume 12: (1769) Scepeaux de la Vieilleville, Blaise de Montluc, Jacques de Matignon. Volume 13: (1770) Louis de Bourbon, André de Montalembert, Paule de la Barthe, Pierre d'Aussun, Pierre Strozi. Volume 14: (1773) Gaspard II. Volume 15: (1773) Suite de la vie de Gaspard de Coligni. Volume 16: (1769) Gaspard de Saulx, François de Coligni. Volume 17: (1769) Henri de Lorraine Duc de Guise. Volume 18: (1771) Charles de Lorraine duc de Mayenne. Volume 19: (1771) Charles de Lorraine duc de Mayenne. Volume 20: (1773) Armand de Gontaut, Charles de Gontaut. Volume 21: (1769) Henri de Rohan. Volume 22: (1769) Henri de Rohan. Volume 23: (1760) Henry da la Tour. Volume 24: (1775) Louis II. Volume 25: (1775) Louis II. Volume 26: (1768) Cesar de Choiseul, Charles de Choiseul. Volume 27: (1757) De Jerome Bignon. Notes: A rare and complete set of a work detailing the lives of many illustrious and famous men of France from the beginning of the monarchy up to the time of publication. International tracked shipping - dispatched promptly and securely. Please view my other books.
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Non-Fiction Subject: Biographies & True Stories
Year Printed: 1739
Binding: Leather
Format: Hardback
Binder: Anon (Period Continental)
Author: Jean Du Castre d'Auvigny, et al
Printing Period: 1739 - 1775
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: French
Publisher: Knapen
Place of Publication: Amsterdam; sold in Paris
Special Attributes: Complete Set, Illustrated
