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Pontault, Sébastien de, seigneur de Beaulieu. LES GLORIEUSES CONQUESTES DE LOUIS LE GRAND, ROY DE FRANCE ET DE NAVARRE. PARIS: THE AUTHOR, [1694] 2 volumes, folio (480 x 351mm.), volume1: engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, engraved illustrated dedication, double-page engraved portrait, 7ff. manuscript index of locations for both volumes within ink borders (ink borders corroded), 104 engraved plates (portraits, maps, views and plans, some folding and/or double-page), a few portraits with replacement captions pasted on, 111ff. letterpress text in roman and italic type (one leaf duplicated) and 2ff. in manuscript, without frontispiece portrait of Louis in vol.1, lacking one leaf of italic text (end of "Description du passage des Rivieres de Segre"), lacking final plate ("Profil de la ville de Metz"); volume 2: engraved title-page, 101 engraved plates, 44ff. letterpress text, 18ff. manuscript text, many leaves with outer margins extended, lacking 3 text leaves ("La prise de la ville de Furnes"), contemporary marbled calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges, extremities rubbed, head of spine of volume 2 chipped, volume 2 slightly scraped, upper hinge of volume 2 split