La galerie ou les tableaux des dames illustres
By: traduict de l'italien du Pona
Contributors: Grenaille, François de, sieur de Chatounières, 1616-1680
Publisher: Chez Gervais Clousier ...
Published: 1642
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Biography; Women
Other titles: Galerie ov les tableavx des dames illvstres
Work titles: Galeria delle donne celebri
Notes: Biographical "pictures" of 12 women of mythology and history, arranged in 3 "rooms" devoted to: les amoureuses, les chastes, les sainctes.

Translation by François de Grenaille.

Signatures: ã⁴ A-2A⁸ 2B⁴. 2B1-2 signed B1-2. 256-57 and 286-87 omitted in paging.

Binding: old vellum, lapped foredges, title written at head of spine.

In ownership inscription dated 14 Feb. 1690 at Cologne, H. Lemoine records a price of 3 solidi. Armorial bookplate of Nordkirchen Library.