Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne, ou Dictionnaire de Tous les Hommes qui se sont fair remarquer par leurs ecrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a ce jour; ouvrage redige par plus de 300 collaborateurs, et entre autres par MM Arago, Auger, Barante (de), Bejamin Constant, Beuchot, et al.

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Verlag: Chez H Ode 1843-7, Bruxelles, 1843

Beschreibung

A new edition of this French universal biography of remarkable men in history, twenty-one volumes in eleven. Twenty-one volumes in eleven. Each with separate title page and unique pagination. New edition edited and corrected as well as expanded with new articles and biographies of Belgian celebrities. Each volume features frontispiece. Collated, complete with twenty-one engraved frontispieces.In the original French.Containing a series of numerous biographies of men, remarkable for their work, actions, talents, virtues, or crimes. Compiled by a series of over three hundred contributors, including MM Arago, Auger, Cousin, Cuvier, Delambre, Malte-Brun, Weiss, Winter, &c, &c.Vols I&II (AA-BON); Vols III&IV (BON-CHR); Vol V&VI (CHR-DZO); Vol VII&VIII (EAC-GRA); Vol IX&X (GRA-KYR); Vol XI&XII (LL-MEL); Vol XIII&XIV (MEL-PAR); Vol XV&XVI (PAR-RIT); Vol XVII&XVIII (RIT-SUR); Vol XIX&XX (SUR-WAL); Vol XXI (WAL-ZYR).With armorial bookplate to front pastedown, from the library of SE Widdrington. In uniform half straight up grain morocco bindings with marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, gilt lettering to spine. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, rubbed lightly to extremities of head and tail of spine, boards lightly rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to odd leaf, particularly affecting first and last few; pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 861A8

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne,...

Verlag: Chez H Ode 1843-7, Bruxelles

Erscheinungsdatum: 1843

Einband: Leather

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book