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Histoire des empereurs, et des autres princes qui ont régné durant les six premiers siècles de l'eglise, de leurs guerres contre les Juifs, des écivains profanes, & des personnes les plus illustres de leur temps.
Venice: François Pitteri 1732 - 1739.
xl, 712pp. and xxiv, 626pp. and xxviij, 587pp. and xxxij, 751pp. and xxxvj, 878pp. and xxxj (1) 711pp., 6 bound volumes. - First Venetian edition, after the original published in Paris from 1690 to 1701 for the first five volumes, 1738 for the sixth posthumous volume published on the author's manuscript. 6 title vignettes signed Cattini.
This history of the emperors, a biographical sum of all the emperors and great princes of the first six centuries without distinction between East and West, earned the Jansenist author his reputation and lasting influence as a historian.
Bound in full velum, labels to spines. General wear. 290mm x 210mm
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