Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne de Louis le Grand
Subtitle: avec des explications historiques
By: par l'Académie royale des médailles & des inscriptions
Contributors: Simonneau, Charles, 1645-1728; Coypel, Antoine, 1661-1722; Anisson, Jean
Publisher: Imprimerie royale
Published: 1702
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Medals; History; Médailles; Histoire; NUMISMATICA; MEDALLAS
Notes: 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.

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.

Bernard p. 155

Cicognara, 2924-1