Histoire de la Monarchie Françoise, enrichie des portraits de tous ses rois, depuis Pharamond jusqu'a Louis XVI, a present regnant and Portraits des Reines, Princes, et Princesses, des Ministres savans et des grands Capitaines, qui se sont illustrés sous les derniers regnes depuis Saint Louis IXe du nom. Illustrated manuscript on paper in two parts. [Paris:] after 1776. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4° (210 x 165mm). Titles with allegorical vignette, introduction and chronology to part I (8pp.) and index to part II (7pp.) with illuminated head- and tailpieces and initials, illuminated title after E. F. M. Boileau, 208 descriptions of monarchs and famous people, each illustrated with a half-page portrait after Boileau. (Some light dampstaining, especially to upper corners at end of second part.) 19th-century green morocco gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down).
Histoire de la Monarchie Françoise, enrichie des portraits de tous ses rois, depuis Pharamond jusqu'a Louis XVI, a present regnant and Portraits des Reines, Princes, et Princesses, des Ministres savans et des grands Capitaines, qui se sont illustrés sous les derniers regnes depuis Saint Louis IXe du nom. Illustrated manuscript on paper in two parts. [Paris:] after 1776. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4° (210 x 165mm). Titles with allegorical vignette, introduction and chronology to part I (8pp.) and index to part II (7pp.) with illuminated head- and tailpieces and initials, illuminated title after E. F. M. Boileau, 208 descriptions of monarchs and famous people, each illustrated with a half-page portrait after Boileau. (Some light dampstaining, especially to upper corners at end of second part.) 19th-century green morocco gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down).
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