The life of the famous John Baptist Colbert, : late minister and Secretary of State to Lewis XIV. the present French king. / Done into English from a French copy printed at Cologne this present year 1695.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.

Standardized Title:

Vie de Jean-Baptiste Colbert. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-1683.

Colbert, Jean Baptiste.

Seignelay, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de, 1651-1690.

Seignelay, Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

France--Politics and government--1643-1715.

France.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Peck, Fran. (autograph)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Life of John Baptist Colbert

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R. Bentley, in Covent-Garden, J. Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Fleet-street, H. Bonwick, at the Red-Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard, W. Freeman, at the Bible, against the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, and S. Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, 1695.

Notes:

A translation of: Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien. La vie de Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

Continues after the death of Colbert in 1683 with the life of his son, the Marquis de Seignelay, until the latter's death in 1690.

Running title reads: The life of John Baptist Colbert.

Signatures: A-R⁸.

Frontispiece on leaf A1.

Last leaf blank.

Advertisements: p. [15]-[16] of preliminaries.

With 4 final contents leaves.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) C6599

ESTC R8430

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 3059

OCLC:

228728153