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1170 - MORERI, Louis *The Great Historical Dictionary, or A Curious Blend of Sacred and Secular History* [...]. New and final edition, revised, corrected, and expanded [- Supplement [...]]. Paris: J. Vincent [- the widow Lemercier, J.-B. Coignard & A. Boudet, P.G. Lemercier, J. Desaint & Ch. Saillant, J.-Th. Hérissant] 1732, 8 vols. (including 2 supplements) in-f°; frontispiece and portrait (uninscribed, slightly browned, some foxing). Speckled sheepskin, spines decorated with gilt raised bands, red edges (signs of wear, especially on the spines). 16th or 17th edition of this famous dictionary (orig.: 1674), which paved the way for the great encyclopedias of the late 18th century and saw its final edition published in 1759, with 2 supplementary vols. Copperplate engravings: allegorical frontispiece engraved by Duflos after Desmarets; portrait of Moreri by the same artist after De Troye. Ref. Brunet III:1901. - Saffroy 10044 & 10028 (“Moreri [...] was the first to include in his dictionary a large number of genealogies of French and foreign houses and families”).
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MORERI, Louis *The Great Historical Dictionary, or A Curious Blend of Sacred and Secular History* [...]. New and final edition, revised, corrected, and expanded [- Supplement [...]]. Paris: J. Vincent [- the widow Lemercier, J.-B. Coignard & A. Boudet, P.G. Lemercier, J. Desaint & Ch. Saillant, J.-Th. Hérissant] 1732, 8 vols. (including 2 supplements) in-f°; frontispiece and portrait (uninscribed, slightly browned, some foxing). Speckled sheepskin, spines decorated with gilt raised bands, red edges (signs of wear, especially on the spines). 16th or 17th edition of this famous dictionary (orig.: 1674), which paved the way for the great encyclopedias of the late 18th century and saw its final edition published in 1759, with 2 supplementary vols. Copperplate engravings: allegorical frontispiece engraved by Duflos after Desmarets; portrait of Moreri by the same artist after De Troye. Ref. Brunet III:1901. - Saffroy 10044 & 10028 (“Moreri [...] was the first to include in his dictionary a large number of genealogies of French and foreign houses and families”).
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