Les bibliothéques françoises de La Croix du Maine et de Du Verdier, sieur de Vauprivas
Print Book, French, 1772-1773
Nouv. édition, dédiée au roi View all formats and editions
Chez Saillant & Nyon, libraires, rue S. Jean de Beauvais : [Chez] Michel Lambert, imprimeur, rue de la Harpe, près S. Côme, A Paris, 1772-1773
French language materials
6 volumes ; 26 cm
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T. I-II. Bibliothéque françoise de La Croix du Maine
t. III-V. Bibliothéque françoise d'Antoine Du Verdier
t. VI. Supplementum epitomes Bibliothecae Gesnerianae, Antonio Verderio collectore; Bernardi Monetae notis illustratum. Adjecta est ... manuscripti in hac extantes, recensentur. Accessit & de calcographiae inventione poëma encomiasticum, olim ab Jo. Arnoldo Bergellano conscriptum
The original edition of La Croix du Maine was published at Paris in 1584; Du Verdier, Lyons, 1585. The two works complement each other and form a literary history of France to about the end of the 16th century. There are many errors in the present edition. cf. Brunet, Manuel de libraire
First collected edition of the two earliest French national bibliographies
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