2 volumes in 1. [xxvi], 421, [2], [1 blank]; [xi], [1 blank], 501, [3] pp. 279 engraved portraits. (4to) 32.6x20.3 cm. (12¾x8") later full calf, spine gilt. First French Edition.
Editions also published in Amsterdam and Brussells the same year. Brief biographies, with engraved portraits of important figures in the sciences and the arts. Includes, among many others, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Rudophe Agricola, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian, Thomas A'Kempis, Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes, Ticho Brahe, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Hugue de Groot, Abraham Ortelius, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernand Cortex, Guttenberg, Albrecht Durer, etc.
Condition:
Spine sunned, extremities rubbed, hinges cracked; a few penciled notes, a bit of browning; very good.