Author: (Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de). Aycard, Marc; Blanchet, Paul, Broc, Jean; et al)
Title: L'Ete Peiresc / Fioretti II: Nouveaux Melanges. Composes Et Offerts Sous la Direction de Jacques Ferrier, President Honoraire de L'Academie Du Var, Par Marc Aycard, Paul Blancet, Jean Broc
Description: (Avignon): Academie du Var/Aubanel, (1988). (1988). (Avignon): Academie du Var/Aubanel, (1988). (1988). Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial white wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed with some very light foxing & some tiny gray marks. The top edge of the rear wrap is darkened. 334 pages plus colophon. Illustrated in black & white. Very good.

Number 82 of a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies.

This book developed out of the Academie of Var's 1980 celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Provence region's most famous son, the celebrated antiquarian, humanist and scholar Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc [1580-1635]. Though Peiresc began by taking a law degree, his fields of study expanded to include antiquities, Oriental studies, natural history, the history of Provence and historical linguistics . Good .

Keywords: HISTORY; FRANCE; PROVENCE; SCHOLAR; ANTIQUARIAN; NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC; L'ACADEMIE DU VAR; L'ETE PEIRESC FIORETTI II: NOUVEAUX MELANGES; JACQUES FERRIER; ILLUSTRATIONS; LIMITED EDITION.

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