Les monumens de la monarchie françoise :
qui comprennent l'histoire de France, avec les figures de chaque regne que l'injure des tems a epargnées ... /
par le R. P. Dom Bernard de Montfaucon ...

Description

Main Author: Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741.
Related Names: Simon, Claude, d. 1752.
Mathey, Charles Grégoire, d. 1749.
Giffart, Pierre François, b. 1677.
Gandouin, Julien-Michel.
Language(s): French ; Latin
Published: A Paris : Chez Julien-Michel Gandouin, quai de Conti, aux trois Vertus, et [chez] Pierre-François Giffart, rue S. Jacques, à Sainte Therese, MDCCXXIX-MDCCXXXIII [1729-1733]
Subjects: France > France / Biography > France / Biography / Portraits.
France > France / Antiquities.
France > France / Kings and rulers.
France > France / History.
Engravings > Engravings / France > Engravings / France / 18th century.
Note: Includes errata.
Includes indexes in each vol.
Vol. 1 has frontispiece port. of Louis XV, to whom work is dedicated, engraved by C. Mathey. A total of 305 unsigned plates, some double page, numbered and lettered separately in each vol. Vols. 1 & 2 contain plates depicting the Bayeux Tapestry. Woodcut initials, one signed VC LS (Vincent Le Sueur?). Woodcut and engraved head- and tail-pieces. Some woodcut head-pieces and the t.p. vignettes are signed "P" (a few "SP").
Claude Simon named as printer in colophons.
The 5 vols. published in 1729, 1730, 1731, 1732 and 1733.
Physical Description: 5 v. : ill., ports. ; 44 cm (fol.)
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