The mirrour of true nobility & gentility
Subtitle: being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius lord of Peiresk, senator of the Parliament at Aix
By: written by the learned Petrus Gassendus ; professor of the mathematicks to the King of France : Englished by W·Rand ; Doctor of Physick
Contributors: Rand, William, translator; Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, illustrator; Streater, John, -1677, printer; Moseley, Humphrey, -1661, bookseller
Publisher: Printed by J. Streater for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1657
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Historians; Biography; Humanists; Statesmen
Work titles: Viri illustris Nicolai Claudii Fabricii de Peiresc
Notes: In English, translated from Latin.

In first section, p. 44-45 erroneously numbered 45-46, no. 49-58 omitted in paging. In second section, no. 65-74 omitted in paging, no. 169-170 duplicated.

Leaf O8 is blank.

Includes marginal notes.

"A catalogue of Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius ... his own proper manuscripts": [16] p. at end.

Frontispiece, a portrait of Peiresc, engraved by R. Gaywood in 1656 after the original by Claude Mellan.

Heath Sciences Library copy is from the George S. Huntington Library.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R24346

Wing (2nd edition) G295

In English with Latin references.