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3 volumes. [ii], v-xlviii, 567, [7]; [ii], iii-viii, 362, [2]; [ii], iii-xii, 536 pp. Illustrated with title page engravings, and Vol. 3 with engraved portrait frontispiece. (Folio) 38x24 cm (15x10"), bound in later tan cloth, morocco spine labels with gilt lettering.

Pétau was born at Orléans, and was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age. Carrying on and improving the chronological labors of Joseph Justus Scaliger, he published in 1627 an Opus de doctrina temporum, which has been often reprinted. An abridgment of this work, Rationarium temporum, was translated into French and English, and has been brought down to the year 1849. Among his previous writings, Pétau had inserted some masterly dissertations on chronology; in 1627 he brought out his De doctrina temporum, and later theTabulae chronologicae This is the last combined edition of Petavius' chronological opus. this set from the Mt. St. Alphonsus Seminary Library of Esopus, New York.