Harangues heroiques des hommes illustres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dubreton, sieur, active 1628-1643.

Quinet, Toussaint, bookseller.

Curtius Rufus, Quintus.

Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.

Livy.

Tacitus, Cornelius

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Physical Description:

26 unnumbered pages, 501, that is, 487 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portraits ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Harangves heroiqves des hommes illvstres

Fingerprint:

ese- seur e.ma enco (3) 1643 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Toussainct Quinet, au Palais dan la petite Salle ..., MDCXLIII [1643]

Notes:

Translations from Greek and Latin of orations by Quintus Curtius, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus.

Edited by Dubreton. Cf. BN.

Prefatory letter to sieur de Gourdon de Lombard signed D.B. [i.e. Antonine Du Breton].

Errors in pagination with some pages mispaginated and with pages 87, 330-339 and 445-448 omitted in numbering.

Colophon reads: Acheué d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le vingthuictiesme septembre, 1642.

Woodcuts: device on title page; initials; head-and tail-pieces.

Added engraved t.p. included in pagination and register.

Ornament on t.p.; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has unidentified bookplate with image of Ganesh, the elephant headed Hindu god of knowledge.

Culture Class Collection copy in full limp vellum with holes in upper cover.

OCLC:

50126374