Histoire des plus illustres et scavans hommes de leurs siecles
Subtitle: tant de l'Europe que de l'Asie, Afrique & Amerique : avec leurs portraits en tailles-douces, tirez sur les veritables originaux
By: par A. Thevet histpropgraphe ; divisé en VIII tomes
Contributors: Mauger, François, 17th cent
Publisher: Chez François Mauger ...
Published: 1670
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Portraits; Early works to 1800; Dictionaries; Biography; French
Other titles: Histoire des plvs illvstres et scavans hommes de levrs siecles
Work titles: Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres
Notes: Expanded ed. of: Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres, 1584.

Vol. 1 has 2 engraved frontispieces (arms of Cardinal de Buillon, to whom work is dedicated, and angel bearing his monogram); also ports. of Buillon and of Thevet. Nearly all biographies are preceded by engraved port. of the subject, printed as a plate.

Binding: calfskin, rebacked. Spines gilt tooled, edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges sprinkled red & brown.

Bookplates of R[ichar]d Benyon de Beauvoir, Englefield House, Berks. Signature of May Peabody at head of title, v. 4 & 8.