Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne entier de Louis le Grand : avec des explications historiques.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France)
Other Authors:	Boze, Claude Gros de, 1680-1753
Format:	Book
Language:	French
Published:	Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1723.
Subjects:	Medals > France. France > History > Louis XIV, 1643-1715. Louis > XIV, > King of France, > 1638-1715.

Description
Item Description:	Title within ornamental border, engr.; title vignette. Text within ornamental border. Leaves (printed on one side only) have each obverse and reverse of one medal followed by descriptive letterpress. Preface (by P. Tallemant) of edition of 1702 (1st edition) suppressed shortly after publication of the work and found only in 50? copies. It was later reprinted and is ordinarily contained in the edition of 1723. Text by F. Charpentier, P. Tallemant, J. Racine, N. Boileau-Despréaux, J. de Tourreil, E. Renaudot, A. Dacier, E. Pavillon and J.P. Bignon; engraved by G. Edelinck, Simonneau, Audran, and B. Picard. This edition by C. Gros de Boze.
Physical Description:	1 preliminary leaf, 318 1., 12 unnumbered pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 43 cm.