LOUIS XIV (1638-1715), King of France]. Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne de Louis le Grand avec explications historiques . Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1702. 2 o (435 x 285 mm). Engraved title with vignette, engraved allegorical frontispiece after A. Coypel by Simonneau l'âiné, each page within an engraved border by Simonneau, most containing engraved medals by Cochin and vignettes by Leclerc (some occasional light browning and spotting). Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers gilt-ruled and centering THE ROYAL ARMS OF LOUIS XIV, spine gilt in seven compartments with crowned monogram in six, gilt-lettered in one, edges gilt (minor rubbing at extemities). FIRST EDITION, with 11-leaf manuscript preface. In all but a few copies the printed preface was surpressed because of its criticisms of Louis XIV. Cohen-de Ricci 695.
LOUIS XIV (1638-1715), King of France]. Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne de Louis le Grand avec explications historiques . Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1702. 2 o (435 x 285 mm). Engraved title with vignette, engraved allegorical frontispiece after A. Coypel by Simonneau l'âiné, each page within an engraved border by Simonneau, most containing engraved medals by Cochin and vignettes by Leclerc (some occasional light browning and spotting). Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers gilt-ruled and centering THE ROYAL ARMS OF LOUIS XIV, spine gilt in seven compartments with crowned monogram in six, gilt-lettered in one, edges gilt (minor rubbing at extemities). FIRST EDITION, with 11-leaf manuscript preface. In all but a few copies the printed preface was surpressed because of its criticisms of Louis XIV. Cohen-de Ricci 695.
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