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: Boze, Claude Gros de, 1680-1753; Tallemant, Paul, 1642-1712
Publisher: Imprimerie royale
Published: 1702
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Medals; History
Notes: Title within ornamental border, engraved; title vignette.

Text within ornamental border.

Leaves 1-286 (printed on one side only) have each obverse and reverse of one medal followed by descriptive letterpress.

Preface (by P. Tallemant) suppressed shortly after publication of this work and found only in 50? copies.

Avery Classics copy: Preface in manuscript in imitation of type within engraved decorative border.

Avery Classics copy: Binding: red morocco with the French royal arms in gold.

Text by Fr. Charpentier, P. Tallemant, J. Racine, N. Boileau-Des-préaux, J. de Tourreil, E. Renaudot, A. Dacier, E. Pavillon, and J. P. Bignon; engraved by G. Edelinck, Simonneau, Audran, and B. Picard.

Edited by C. Gros de Boze.