vrais portraits des rois de France
Subtitle: tirez de ce qui nous reste de leurs monumens, sceaux, medailles, ou autres effigies, conseruées dans les plus rares & plus curieux cabinets du royaume
By: Par Iacques de Bie ...
Contributors: Coste, Hilarion de, 1595-1661.; Camusat, Jean, bookseller.; Bessin, Jean, printer.
Edition: Seconde edition / augmentée de nouueaux portraits, & enrichie des vies des rois par le R.P.H. de Coste.
Publisher: Chez Iean Camusat ...
Published: 1636
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; France -- Kings and rulers -- Portraits -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Biography; Early works to 1800.; Portraits
Notes: Colophon: A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Iean Bessin, Imprimeur & Marchand Libraire, demeurant ruë de Reims, prés le College. M. DC. XXXV. [1635]

First published in 1634.

Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ õ² A-3G⁴.

Contains 67 engravings by de Bie, comprised of an added illustrated t.p., portraits of 58 kings, additional portraits of three of the kings, and empty frames for the unknown likenesses of five of the early kings.

Title page in red and black.

Initials; marginal notes throughout.

Error in paging: no. 325 misprinted as 323.

"Fautes principales suruenues en l'impression"--P. [3] (3rd group).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brunet, I, p. 939

Tchemerzine. Répertoire de livres à figures rares et précieux édités en France au XVII ̊siècle, p. 39

Burns Library copy: bookplate at top, front pastedown: "Bibliotheca S.J. Maison Saint-Augustin Enghien."

Burns Library copy: ink stamp on verso, engraved t.p.: "Collegium Angiense Societatis Jesu."

Burns Library copy: fore edge trimmed with some loss of marginal note text.