Shelfmark
DDh.8.20(01)
Author
Title
Portraits des personnes illustres de l'un & de l'autre sexe recueillis et gravés, par les soins de Michel Odieuvre ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Paris] : [Michel Odieuvre], [between 1742 and 1745?].
Physical description
[4] leaves, [48] plates ; 21 (8vo)
Note
Date of printing tentatively assumed from most recent death date of portrait subject (1742), and the biography of Odieuvre from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Note
The first four leaves (including the t.p.) are engraved.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College on the front pastedown.
Provenance
Engraving of R. Pere Antoine Escobar pasted on the verso of the t.p.
Binding
20th century quarter cloth and blue paper.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 'Prospectus de L'Europe illustre, ouvrage contenant les vies abrégée des souverains, des princes, des ministres... des savans, des artistes, & des dames qui se sont distingués en Europe depuis le quinxieme siècle jusqu’à présent. huit volumes'.
Copy-specific note
Old shelfmark Bp2.
Added entry--name
Escobar y Mendoza, Antonio de, 1589 - 1669 associated name.
Added entry--name
Odieuvre, Michel. printer.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B17026