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Les vrais portraits des rois de France : tirez de ce qui nous reste de leurs monumens, sceaux, medailles, ou autres effigies, conseruées dans les plus rares & plus curieux cabinets du royaume ... / par Jacqves de Bie, chalcographe ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio N7604 .B54 1636 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Bie, Jacques, 1581-approximately 1650.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers.
- France--Kings and rulers--Portraits.
- France.
- France--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Portraits.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Kinnaird, Baron (bookplate) (Frost Collection copy)
- Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725 (inscription) (Frost Collection copy)
- Pawson, Henry (former owner) (inscription) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 28 unnumbered pages, 395 pages, 29 unnumbered pages : portraits ; 34 cm (folio)
- Edition:
- Second edition, augmentée de nouueaux portraits, & enrichie des vies des rois / par le R.P.H. de Coste ...
- Manufacture:
- (De l'imprimerie de Iean Bessin ...)
- Fingerprint:
- uti- r.re s,la soEn (7) 1636 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Iean Camusat ..., MDCXXXVI [1636]
- Notes:
- Printer's name from colophon on leaf 3G4v, which reads: A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Iean Bessin, Imprimeur & Marchand Libraire, demeurant ruë de Reims, prés le College. M. DC. XXXV.
- Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ õ² A-3G⁴.
- Title in red and black.
- Engraved illustrated half-title and portraits.
- Woodcut initials.
- Printed marginalia.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy imperfect: leaves Z3, 2A1, 2A3, 2B1, 2C1, 2C3, 2D2, 2E2, 2F1, 2F3, 2I1, 2K1-2K3, 2L1, 2L4, 2M1, 2M3, 2N1, 2N3, 2O2, 2P1, 2P4, 2Q3, 2R3, 2S3, 2T2, 2V2, 2X3, 2Z4, and 3C3 wanting.
- Frost Collection copy has early ms. transcription of the closing lines of Josuah Sylvester's translation of Pierre Mathieu's Histoire de la mort deplorable de Henry IV at foot of leaf 2Z3r; 11 stanzas of poetry in early ms. in margins of leaves 2Z2v and 2Z3r.
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has engraved armorial bookplate of Baron Kinnaird with ms. shelf-mark ("L. [delta] 2") on front pastedown.
- Frost Collection copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Henry Pawson book I had it in Exchange from Mr. Ralph Thoresby with Messr[?] Commentaries for Dr Leighs Natural Hist of Lancashire") of Henry Pawson (1656-1718) of Leeds, England, in brown ink at head of title leaf.
- Frost Collection copy: wormhole in fore-edge margin of leaves 2Z1-3G4, back free endpaper and back pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 12295246
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