Collection De Portraits, Représentant Les Personnages Les Plus Célèbres -

Paris: Chez M. F. Drouhin, Éditeur, 1801. dans la Poésie, la Littérature, les Sciences, les Arts, la Politique, la Médecine, l'Eglise et la Magistrature; Gravés au Lavis eh en Couleur daprès diférens Maîtrea: Précédée l'une Difsertation sur le genre du portrait dans la Peinture. Collection of Portraits, representing the personages more famous in Poetry, the Literature, the Sciences, the Arts, the Political, Medicine, the church and the Magistrature; Engraved to the Lavis eh in Color daprès diférens Maîtrea: Preceded the a Disertation on the kind of the portrait in the Paint. later edition (one plate dated 1805). 5 pps. text, 31 full page colored stipple engravings. Half-leather, marbled boards and end papers, boards with wear and scuffing (one small loss on each cover) to corners and spine, plate leaves trimmed into publishers notification at bottom, most plates with foxing affecting margins only, most print protectors torn. 4 raised bands on spine with gilt title, corners worn. Non-authorial inscription verso fep, stain in middle of title page (can still easily read the title) goes through a few pages. previous owners name on first page of text. Portraits are all 8.25x10" and include Benjamin Franklin, Dedie a Belle et Bonne fille adoptive de Voltaire, Rene Descartes, Diderot, Montaigne, Jean de la Fontaine, Fontenelle, Jean Silvain Bailly, Honore Gabriel Mirabeau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Charles Linne, Madame de Levigne, Pope Pius vii, et. al.. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.