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Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne de Louis le Grand : avec des explications historiques

by: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France)

Publication date: 1702

Topics: Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, Medals, Louis XIV, roi de France, 1638-1715, Medals -- France, Médailles -- France, NUMISMATICA -- FRANCIA, MEDALLAS -- FRANCIA, France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715, France -- Histoire -- 1643-1715 (Louis XIV), France

Publisher: Paris : Imprimerie royale

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Final [3] leaves numbered as p. 287-292

Colophon: A Paris, Aux dépens d'Anisson, directeur de l'Imprimerie royale ..., MDCCII

Engraved frontispiece by Charles Simonneau after Antoine Coypel

Binding: old mottled calf; sprinkled edges; armorial bookplate on front pastedown

[4] pages, 286 leaves, 287-292 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 29 cm (4to)

Title vignette

Running title: Médailles sur le regne de Louis le Grand

Edition in quarto. Published in folio the same year. The folio edition is the first. Cf. Avertissement

Leaves 1-286 (printed on one side only) have reverse only of one medal followed by descriptive letterpress

Text by F. Charpentier, P. Tallement, 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