[Dictionary - History] MORERI, Louis Le grand dictionaire historique ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane [...]. [- Nouveau supplement au grand dictionnaire historique [...]]. Amsterdam [e.a.] (suppl. Paris), P. Brunel; R. Wetstein [e.a.] (suppl. J. Vincent; J.B. Coignard [e.a.]), (suppl. vol., folio; front. (n.c., usual browning). Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-titled spines with raised bands (heads and tails sl. rubbed). Monumental dictionary by Louis Moreri (1643-1680), French priest and encyclopaedist. Together with Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Moreri set the standard for the large, 18th-c. encyclopaedias. Only the 1st ed. (was published during the author's life and the last ed. (20th!) was published in Ill. with a front. and engr. headpiece in the first vol. Supplement, based on the Paris ed. of with corrections to this work. Ref. Brunet III:Prov. Marquis de Gages, Mons (armorial bookpl. with ms. shelf marks in all vol. except vol. 9).
[Dictionary - History] MORERI, Louis Le grand dictionaire historique ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane [...]. [- Nouveau supplement au grand dictionnaire historique [...]]. Amsterdam [e.a.] (suppl. Paris), P. Brunel; R. Wetstein [e.a.] (suppl. J. Vincent; J.B. Coignard [e.a.]), (suppl. vol., folio; front. (n.c., usual browning). Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-titled spines with raised bands (heads and tails sl. rubbed). Monumental dictionary by Louis Moreri (1643-1680), French priest and encyclopaedist. Together with Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Moreri set the standard for the large, 18th-c. encyclopaedias. Only the 1st ed. (was published during the author's life and the last ed. (20th!) was published in Ill. with a front. and engr. headpiece in the first vol. Supplement, based on the Paris ed. of with corrections to this work. Ref. Brunet III:Prov. Marquis de Gages, Mons (armorial bookpl. with ms. shelf marks in all vol. except vol. 9).
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