Moréri Le grand dictionnaire historique
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DICTIONARY OF HISTORY (9). MORÉRI, LOUIS. Le grand dictionnaire historique ou le mélange curieux de l´histoire sacrée et profane /... / Commencé en 1674 par Mre Louis Moreri, prêtre, docteur en théol. et continué par le même & plusieurs auteurs de differens partis. Prémière edition de Basle en François, corrigée & considerablement augmentée. 1-6 + suppl. 1-3. Basel (Jean Branmuller / veuve de Jean Christ) 1731-32, 1743-45.
Folio. Engraved frontispiece, (18), 703, (2), 723, (2), 836, (2), 1103, (2), 1-787, 790-1009, (2), 1106, (18), 1019, (3), 1054, (4), (4), 1085, (5) pp.
Eight volumes uncut in contemporary half vellum with blank spines, marbled covers, worn on upper edges. Volume 7 (first supplemental volume) in half vellum with three raised bands, partly rubbed, the others are uniform. Text with browning in first four volumes, a few leaves with tears, dampstain in beginning of second supplement volume. 9 volumes.
Brunet III, 1901 (other editions).
A fourth supplemental volume was published in 1749. First published in 1674, it was expanded in several successional editions by other authors until the final edition in ten volumes, 1759. The supplemental volumes are by Claude-Pierre Goujet. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically, with articles on places, people, books, and general subjects intermixed. Tsar Peter the Great is supposed to have commanded a Russian translation, and an Italian translation was projected.
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Auktionsnummer:
248466
Date:
2014-05-26