Author: Bérard, Auguste Simon Louis - Le Prestre, Rene Charles Hippolyte, Marquis de Chateaugiron - Duchesne, Jean - Tremisot
Title: Isographie Des Hommes Celebres Ou Collection De Fac Simile De Lettres Autographes Et De Signatures Exécute Et Imprimée Par Th. Delarue
Description: Théophile Delarue - Truttel Et Wurtz, Paris, 1843, 2nd edition. Half brown morocco over patterned boards, VG. 3 volumes [ of 4 lacks Volume 3 ]. unpaginated, 494pp, 430pp, 456pp, many pages printed on the recto only, a collection of facsimile letters & autographs, leather rubbed a little at the edges, sporadic foxing & soptting to certain pages depending on the paper stock used, overall a nice set. Bookplate of Knobel with signature to the first blank. This edition not in the British Library. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Monumental collection of letters, each reproduced in a lithographic facsimile with these three volumes containing letters from some 658 European men of letters & learning. [ the missing volumes contains persons with surnames begining with L M N & O ] Includes - Addison, Ariosto, Bacon, Beaumarchais, beethoven, Boileau, Tycho Brahe, Byron, Cagilostro, Charlemagne, Copernicus, Diderot, Van Dyck, Erasmus, Galileo, Gessner, Gluck, Frotius, Huyghens, Jenner, Jefferson, Kant, Kepler, Palladio, Pitt, Poussin, Rabelais, Rousseau, De Sade, Voltaire, Washington & amny many many others. a nice item, despite the loss of one volume.

Keywords: bibliography, autographs, history, letters, biography