Le dessein de l'histoire de Reims
Subtitle: Avec diverses cvrievses remarques touchant l'establissement des peuples, & la fondation des villes de France
By: Par feu m. Nicolas Bergier ...
Publisher: Chez Nicolas Hecart, joignant la grand' porte du cloistre Nostre Dame, du costé du marché, à la Bible d'or.
Published: 1635
Place of publication: A Reims
Language: fre
Number of pages: 472
Notes: Avec privilege dv roy.

Engraved publisher's device on t.-p.

Another issue has alternate t.-p. with imprint of F. Bernard, Reims.

Numbers 281-8 duplicated in the paging; the eight pages between p.384 and 397 are numbered: 389-391, 388, 389, 394, 395, 392.

Plates designed (except one) and engr. by Edme Moreau.

Dedicatory epistle signed: Iean Bergier.

Only livres 1-2 (here present) were completed by the author; the table includes the prospected 16 livres.

From the library of James Frothingham Hunnewell, with his bookplate; full-page engraving by Moreau, "Portrait de la statuë de Roy Lovys XIII, posée en l'Hostel-de-ville de Reims l'an 1636" mounted on inside front cover; inscriptions on title page.

Contemporary calf covers with the arms of Mazarin in gilt preserved and inlaid on modern calf binding; marbled endpapers.