Dreux du Radier [Jean-François]. - Historical and Critical L - Lot 584

Dreux du Radier [Jean-François]. - Historical and Critical Library of Poitou, containing the lives of the scholars of this province from the third century to the present; a catalog of their works, with commentary to assess them; the historical and chronological succession of the hereditary counts and that of the bishops of Poitiers since Saint Nectaire. Paris, Ganeau, 1754. 5 in-12 volumes, bound in full contemporary calfskin, smooth spines with decorative embellishments, title labels—a hole in the spine of Volume II, damaged headbands on Volumes I and IV— [2 ff.], xli pp. (preface), [3 pp. of privilege], 434 pp., [1 f. errata]; [2 ff.], 528 pp., [1 f. errata]; [2 ff.], 523 pp., [1 f. errata]; [2 ff.], 528 pp., [1 f. errata]; [2 ff.], 566 pp. (including 44 pp. of tables), [1 f. errata]. Complete with the allegorical frontispiece, bearing the coat of arms of Poitou, engraved by A. Humblot