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[Graham Greene (?), Ronald Matthews] Sheila Cousins. To beg I am ashamed / 8th impression. — Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1938.

Title page: Sheila Cousins | TO BEG | I AM ASHAMED | {publisher’s device} | THE OBELISK PRESS | 16, PLACE VENDOME | PARIS || Pagination: [2] – blanks (in wrapper), [4] – h.t. / blank, t.p. / publisher's note (to first impression) & copyright, [1] 2-270, [4] uncut (in wrapper) with imprint "Imprimerie Frère Tourcoing", total 280 pages. Collation: 8vo; [A]⁸ B-Q⁸ R⁴ S⁸; total 140 leaves. Binding: Publisher’s yellow wrappers, lettering to spine:| TO BEG | I AM | ASHAMED |—| SHEILA | COUSINS | 8th | IMPRESSION | {publisher’s device} | THE | OBELISK PRESS | PARIS ||; lettered front wrapper in red and black: To beg | I am ashamed |—| by | Sheila Cousins |—| The autobiography | of a London prostitute | Only authorized edition | Complete and unexpurgated | {publisher’s device} | THE OBELISK PRESS ||, publisher’s device in red to back wrapper; margins untrimmed; in an owner slipcase. Edition: 1st edition, 8th impression, France, (in or after August 1838). Size: 19 x 14.5 cm. Contributors: Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author. Ronald Matthews (British, 1903 – 1967) – author. The Obelisk Press (Paris) – publisher. Imprimerie Frère Tourcoing – printer. Compare to the presumably 1st impression of the same edition [LIB-2806.2021].

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[Graham Greene (?), Ronald Matthews] Sheila Cousins. To beg I am ashamed. — Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1938.

Title page: Sheila Cousins | TO BEG | I AM ASHAMED | {publisher’s device} | THE OBELISK PRESS | 16, PLACE VENDOME | PARIS || Pagination: [2] – blanks (in wrapper), [4] – h.t. / blank, t.p. / publisher's note & copyright, [1] 2-270, [4] uncut (in wrapper), total 280 pages. Collation: 8vo; [A]⁸ B-Q⁸ R⁴ S⁸; total 140 leaves. Binding: Publisher’s yellow wrappers, lettering to spine:| TO BEG | I AM | ASHAMED |—| SHEILA | COUSINS | {publisher’s device} | THE | OBELISK PRESS | PARIS ||; lettered front wrapper in red and black: To beg | I am ashamed |—| by | Sheila Cousins |—| The autobiography | of a London prostitute | Only authorized edition | Complete and unexpurgated | {publisher’s device} | THE OBELISK PRESS ||, publisher’s device in red to back wrapper; margins untrimmed; in an owner slipcase. Edition: 1st edition, France, May (i.e. June) 1838; presumably the first impression. Size: 19 x 14.5 cm. Contributors: Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author. Ronald Matthews (British, 1903 – 1967) – author. The Obelisk Press – publisher.

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[Graham Greene (?), Ronald Matthews] Sheila Cousins. To beg I am ashamed. — New York: The Vanguard Press, 1938.

Title page: Sheila Cousins | TO BEG | I AM ASHAMED | THE VANGUARD PRESS • NEW YORK | 1938 || Pagination:[4] [1] 2-283 [284], total 288 pages. Collation: 8vo; [A]⁸ B-S⁸; total 144 leaves. Binding: Publisher’s blue buckram, black lettering to front cover and spine, price-clipped blue dust jacket, lettered front: To beg | I am ashamed |—| THE AUTHENTIC | AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A | LONDON | PROSTITUTE |—| by | Sheila Cousins ||; fore-edge untrimmed. Size: 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Edition: 1st American edition Contributors: Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author. Ronald Matthews (British, 1903 – 1967) – author. The Vanguard Press, NY (1926 – 1988) – publisher.

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[Théodore Labourieu]. Mémoires de Monsieur Claude: chef de la police de sûreté sous le second Empire / 2 vol. — Paris: Jules Rouff et Cie, [c. 1900].

Vol. 1: Title: MÉMOIRES | DE | MONSIEUR CLAUDE | CHEF DE LA POLICE DE SURETÉ́ SOUS LE SECOND EMPIRE | {single rule} | PREMIER VOLUME | publisher’s device «JR» in oval} | PARIS | JULES ROUFF ET C^ie, ÉDITEURS | 14, CLOITRE SAINT-HONORÉ, 14 | {single rule} || Pagination: [4] – h.t., t.p., [1-3] – engraved t.p. w/portrait, 3-800 [4], in-text and full-page woodcuts; last two leaves (table) has numbered pages 1000 and 1001; the total number of pages 808. Collation: 4to; π² [1]⁴ 2-100⁴ Ω², woodcuts by Quesnel and Ferdinandus, within collation; the total number of leaves 404. Vol. 2: Title: Same but “DEUXIEME VOLUME” Pagination: [4] – h.t., t.p., [801-2] – frontis., 803-2010, [6] – assassinats, [4] – table, in-text and full-page woodcuts; last two leaves (table) has numbered pages 2018 and 2019; the total number of pages 1224. Collation: 4to; π² 101-252⁴ Ω², woodcuts by Quesnel and Ferdinandus, within collation; the total number of leaves 612. Binding: Two volumes 28 x 20.5 cm each, uniformly bound in quarter polished brown calf over marbled boards, blind-stamped florets and gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers. Contributors: Claude, Antoine (French, 1807 – 1880) – declared author of the text. Labourieu, Théodore (French, 1822 – 1889) – assumed author of the text. Quesnel, Désiré Mathieu (French, 1843 – 1915) – woodcut printmaker. Ferdinandus, Alexandre [Avenet, François] (French, 1850 – 1888) – illustrator. D. Bardin et C^ie – printer. Jules Rouff (French, 1846 – 1927) – publisher. Jules Rouff et C^ie(Paris, 1873 – 1982) – publisher. Note: Common opinion is that the text was produced by Théodore Labourieu, not by, Antoine Claude. The first edition was published by the same publisher in 10 volumes in wrappers without illustrations, between 1880 and 1883, after the death of Antoine Claude. As stated in WorldCat: “not written or sanctioned by him.” This two-volume edition was published later, with multiple woodcuts.

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Жизнь Бенвенуто, сына маэстро Джованни Челлини, флорентинца, написанная им самим во Флоренции / Перевод М. Лозинского. — М.-Л.: Academia, 1931.

Dust jacket: Pictorial floral ornament, lettering in a central medallion: ЖИЗНЬ | БЕНВЕНУТО | ЧЕЛЛИНИ | {ACADEMIA} || Title page in black and red in a pictorial frame: ЖИЗНЬ | БЕНВЕНУТО, | СЫНА МАЭСТРО | ДЖОВАННИ | ЧЕЛЛИНИ, | ФЛОРЕНТИНЦА, | НАПИСАННАЯ | ИМ САМИМ | ВО ФЛОРЕНЦИИ |{√}| ПЕРЕВОД, ПРИМЕЧА | НИЯ И ПОСЛЕСЛОВИЕ | М. ЛОЗИНСКОГО | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ | СТАТЬЯ | А. К. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА~ЛЕНИНГРАД | M.CM.XXXI || Frontispiece: ПАМЯТНИКИ | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОГО | И ОБЩЕСТВЕННОГО | БЫТА |{√}| ЖИЗНЬ | БЕНВЕНУТО | ЧЕЛЛИНИ |{√}| ACADEMIA | МОСКВА~ЛЕНИНГРАД | M.CM.XXXI || Title verso: LA VITA DI BENVENUTO DI M^o GIOVANNI | CELLINI FIORENTINO | scritta per lui medesimo in Firenze | […] | Рисунки титулов, переплета и супер-обложки И. Ф. Реберга |[…]| 6 – 10 тысяча || Pagination: [1-5] 6-735 [736], 30 photomechanical plates (incl. portrait) Collation : [1]⁸ 2-46⁸+ 15 leaves of plates extraneous to collation, total 383 leaves. Binding: publisher’s burgundy cloth, gilt-stamped to front, blind-stamped to back board, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial DJ. Print run: 5,250 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №473, p. 220 (in 1932 section). Contributors: Benvenuto Cellini (Italian, 1500 – 1571) – author. Алексей Карпович Дживелегов (Russian, 1875 – 1952) – editor. Михаил Леонидович Лозинский (Russian, 1886 – 1955) – translator. Иван Фёдорович Рерберг (Russian, 1892 – 1957) – artist.

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Аполлон Григорьев. Воспоминания / Редакция и комментарии Иванова-Разумника. (Памятники литературного быта). — М., Л.: Academia, 1930.

Title page: АПОЛЛОН ГРИГОРЬЕВ | ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ | РЕДАКЦИЯ И КОММЕНТАРИИ | ИВАНОВА – РАЗУМНИКА | « ACADEMIA» | МОСКВА — ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1930 || Duplicate title: ПАМЯТНИКИ | ЛИТЕРАТУРНОГО | БЫТА | ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ | АПОЛЛОНА ГРИГОРЬЕВА | И ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ О НЕМ | «ACADEMIA» | МОСКВА — ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1930 || Title verso: Супер-обложка | худ. В. М. Конашевича | Тиснение на переплете | худ. А. А. Ушина | {imprint} || Print run: 5070 copies. Pagination: [i-v] vi-viii, [1-3] 4-697 [3]. Collation: 8vo; π⁴, 1-42⁸, Ω¹⁴(total 345 leaves) + 1 plate (photomechanical portrait frontispiece). Note: 1₁ unsigned. Binding: 18 x 13 cm; purple cloth, gilt-stamped with geometrical design, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial DJ (short, 16 cm). Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 403, p.210. Григорьев, Аполлон Александрович (Russian, 1822 – 1864) – character, author. Конашевич, Владимир Михайлович (Russian, 1888 – 1963) – artist. Ушин, Алексей Алексеевич (Russian, 1904 – 1942) – artist.

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Voyages et mémoires de Maurice-Auguste, Comte de Benyowsky / 2 vol. — Paris : F. Buisson, 1791.

Vol. 1. Title : VOYAGES | ET MÉMOIRES | DE | MAURICE-AUGUSTE, | COMTE DE BENYOWSKY, | Magnat des Royaumes d’Hongrie et de | Pologne, etc. etc. | Contenant ses Opérations militaires en | Pologne, son exil au Kamtchatka, son Evasion | et son Voyage à travers l’Océan pacifique, au | Japon, à Formose, à Canton en Chine, et | les détails de l’Etablissement qu’il fut chargé | par le Ministère François de former à Mada- | gascar. | TOME PREMIER. | A PARIS, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue | Hautefeuille, n^o 20. | (1791.) Pagination : [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] ii-viii, [1] 2-466. Collation: 8vo; [π]² a⁴, A-Ff⁸ Gg¹. Vol. 2. Title: Similar, but TOME SECOND. Pagination: [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [1] 2-486. Collation: 8vo; [π]² A-Gg⁸ Hh³, Hh₃ unsigned. Binding: both volumes uniformly bound in half brown calf over speckled beige boards, crimson label with gilt lettering to flat spine, volume number in garland, florets in compartments. Bookplate to front pastedown: "C. De Oetting." Ink stamp to t.p.: "Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek". Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein library (Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek) is the former library of the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, now part of the collection of Augsburg University library.

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Quelques mémoires de Casanova de Seingalt écrits par lui-même / Aquarelles originales de Rojankowski. — Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1932.

Cover: QUELQUES MÉMOIRES | DE | CASANOVA | Aquarelles originales de Rojankowski (pasted) | {fleuron} | PARIS | — | Javal et Bourdeaux | 1932 || Title: QUELQUES | MÉMOIRES | de | CASANOVA | DE SEINGALT | ÉCRITS PAR LUI-MÊME | — | {fleuron} | PARIS | — | Javal et Bourdeaux | 44 bis, Rue de Villejust || Pagination: ffl [4] – t.p. / blank, h.t. with pasted crayon illustr. / Exemplaire № 660, [1] 2-307 [308 blank] bfl, 10 original watercolours (with glassine paper guards) by Feodor Rojankovsky, extraneous to collation. Binding: Softcover, publisher’s grey wrappers with black and red lettering to front cover and spine; in grey canvas over cardboard folder with purple cloth gilt-lettered spine; grey canvas over cardboard slipcase. Catalogue Raisonné: Not in J.-P. Dutel (his catalogue contains only clandestine editions). Comment by J.-P. Dutel: In this copy of the edition, 20 illustrations by Auguste Leroux were cancelled and replaced with 10 original watercolours by Feodor Rojankovsky. Only one such copy exists.

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Isaac Bullart. Academie des sciences et des arts / 2 volumes. — Amsterdam: Elzevier [i.e. Brussels: Foppens], 1682.

Title: ACADEMIE | DES | SCIENCES | ET DES | ARTS, | Contenant les Vies & les Eloges Historiques des | Hommes Illustres, | Qui ont excellé en ces Professions depuis environ quatre Siécles | parmy diverses Nations de l’Europe : |Avec leurs Pourtraits tirez sur des Originaux au Naturel, & plusieurs Inscriptions | funebres, exactement recueïlies de leurs Tombeaux | Par Isaac Bullart , Chevalier de l’Ordre de Saint Michel. | TOME PREMIER | {allegorical vignette, signed Abr. A Diepenbeke delineavit – Pet. Clouwet sculp.} | Imprimé par les soins de l’Autheur. | A AMSTERDAM, | Se vendent chez les Heritiers de Daniel Elzevier, 1682. || Vol. 1: Pagination: 2 blank end-leaves, [2] – Two-volumes h.t. / blank ; [2] – 1^st vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette engraved by Pieter Clouwet (Flemish, 1629–1670) after Abraham van Diepenbeeck (Dutch, 1596 - 1675), book-label 'I. A. Aubert' pasted / blank; [7] – dedication to Jacques Theodore de Brias {Jacques-Théodore de Bryas (Dutch, 1630 – 1694)}, [9] – preface, [2] – table demonstrative / stanza by Guilielmus Riverius, [2] – vignette “Tardius sed grandius” with an elephant in ornamental frame / text; [2] – Advis au lecteur; [1, 2] – noms politiques / blank (A₁), 3(A₂)-416, 2 blank end-leaves; laking 8 last pages 417-424 if compared to Paris 2 in 1 vol. edition LIB-2676.2021, and lacking 4 last pages if compared with another Amsterdam edition LIB-2239.2019. These last 4 pages contain portraits and eulogies of François Primatici and Jacques Barozzi de Vignole. Collation: 4to; [*]⁶, **⁸, A⁶ B-Fff⁴, lacking Ggg⁴, 118 plates (instead of 120) within a collation. Vol. 2: Pagination: 2 blank end-leaves, [2] – tome second h.t. / blank ; [2] – 2^nd vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette similar to vol. 1, with book-label 'I. A. Aubert' / blank; [4] – advertissement; [2] – f.t. Theologiens / blank; [2] – noms theologiens / blank 1-501 [3] – table eloges, 1 blank end-leaf. Collation: 4to; [*]⁴, **², A-Sss⁴, 159 plates within a collation. Binding: both volumes uniformly bound in full contemporary cream vellum with blind double fillet over boards, raised bands, compartments tooled in black, brown calf labels with gilt lettering to spine. Printed on laid paper, with tall "s", all margins sprinkled red; the size of each vol.: 32.2 x 20.5 x 4.7 cm. A full description of plates, as well as their images, presented in LIB-2676.2021.

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Isaac Bullart. Academie des sciences et des arts / 2 volumes in 1. — Paris: Louis Bilaine [i.e. Brussels: Foppens], 1682.

Title: ACADEMIE | DES | SCIENCES | ET DES | ARTS, | Contenant les Vies & les Eloges Historiques des | Hommes Illustres, | Qui ont excellé en ces Professions depuis environ quatre Siécles | parmy diverses Nations de l’Europe : |Avec leurs Pourtraits tirez sur des Originaux au Naturel, & plusieurs Inscriptions | funebres, exactement recueïlies de leurs Tombeaux | Par Isaac Bullart , Chevalier de l’Ordre de Saint Michel. | TOME PREMIER | {allegorical vignette, signed Abr. A Diepenbeke delineavit – Pet. Clouwet sculp.} | Imprimé par les soins de l’Autheur. | A PARIS, | Se vendent chez Loüis Bilane, Marchand Libraire à la ruë S. Jaques, | & au Palais, M. DC. LXXXII. || Pagination : [2] – h.t. / blank ; [2] – 1^st vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette engraved by Pet. Clouwet after Abr. Diepenbeke / blank; [7] – dedication to Jacques Theodore de Brias {Jacques-Théodore de Bryas (Dutch, 1630 – 1694)}, [9] – preface, [2] – table demonstrative / stanza by Guilielmus Riverius, [2] – vignette “Tardius sed grandius” with an elephant in ornamental frame / text; [2] – noms politiques / blank (A₁ before f.t.), [2] – f.t. livre premiere, illustres politiques / blank, 3(A₂)-421, [422-424] – table eloges; [2] – f.t. tome second / blank, [2] – 2^nd vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette…, [4] – advertisement, [2] – livre premier f.t. / blank, [2] – noms theologiens / blank, 1-501, [3] – table eloges. Collation : vol.1: [*]⁶, **⁶, A⁶ B-Ggg⁴; vol. 2: *⁴, **², A-Sss⁴. (12 prelim. leaves, while in LIB-2239.2019 and in LIB-2675.2021 there is 14 prelim. leaves). Binding: contemporary full calf, size: 34 x 23 x 7.2 cm; crimson label with gilt lettering separated. Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Philip Crampton Smyly to the front pastedown; Stephen White Collection. The title is drawn by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (Dutch, 1596 - 1675) and engraved by Pieter Clouwet (Flemish, 1629–1670). The volume illustrated throughout with 279 portraits of important scientists, artists, thinkers, explorers, printers, and others of the period by a variety of artists. Tome 1: 120 plates of which 30 engraved by Esme de Boulonois (French, 1645 – 1681), 87 by Nicolas de Larmessin I (French, 1632 – 1694), and 3 unsigned. Portrait of Raphael engraved by Lamerssin after Titian; Portrait of Titian’ daughter Lavinia Vecellio (Italian, 1530 – 1575) engraved by Lamerssin after Titian, Portrait of Jacques Auguste de Thou engraved by de Boulonois after Daniel Dumonstier (French, 1574 – 1646). Tome 2: 159 plates of which 63 by Esme de Boulonois, 79 by Nicolas de Larmessin, 15 unsigned, 1 by Pieter Clouwet, and 1 by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607 – 1677). Portraits of Knelme Digby, Juste Lipse, Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Michel Mirevelt, Jacques Calot, Martin Richart, Pierre Paul Rubens, Venceslas Coberghe, Theodore Rombouts, Adrien Brouwer, Simon Vouet, Gerard Segers, Gaspar de Crayer, Antoine Van Dyck himself, and his wife Mary Ruthven – after Anthony Van Dyck. Young Man with a Skull engraved by Esme de Boulonois after Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, c. 1494 – 1533). Portrait of Louis Arioste engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin after Titian. Portrait of Balthasar de Castillon engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin after Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, 1483 – 1520). Petrarch's Laura – by Larmessin after Palma Vecchio (Italian, c. 1480 – 1528). Vittoria Colonne – by Larmessin after Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian, c. 1485 – 1547). The portrait of Albert Durer is engraved by Esme de Boulonois after Tommaso Vincidor (Flemish, 1493 – 1536). Vol. 1, Book 1. Politicians

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Gille Albornoz, Cardinal	Gil Carrillo de Albornoz [Egidio Carillo Albornozio] (Spanish, 1579 – 1649)
	II	Bessarion, Cardinal	Bessarion (Greek, 1403 – 1472)
	III	George d’Amboise, Cardinal	Georges d'Amboise (French, 1460 – 1510)
	IV	François Ximenes, Cardinal	Francisco Jiménez [ Ximenes ] de Cisneros (Spanish, 1436 – 1517)
	V	Guillaume de Croy	William [Guillaume] II de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres (1458 – 1521)
	VI	Jean de Selve	Jean de Selve (Grench, 1475 – 1529)
	VII	Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal	Thomas Wolsey (British, 1473 – 1530)
	VIII	Thomas Morus	Sir Thomas More (British, 1478 – 1535)
	IX	Renaud Pole, Cardinal	Reginald Pole (British, 1500 – 1558)
	X	Michel de l’Hospital	Michel de l'Hôpital [l'Hospital] (French, 1507 – 1573)
	XI	Stanislas Hosius, Cardinal	Stanislaus Hosius [Stanisław Hozjusz] (Polish, 1504 – 1579)
	XII	Guy du Faur de Pybrac	Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac [Pybrac; Guido Faurus] (French, 1529 – 1584)
	XIII	Antoine Perrenot, Cardinal	Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (Bisontin, 1517 – 1586)
	XIV	Auger Busbeque	Ogier Ghiselin [Augier Ghislain] de Busbecq [ Augerius Gislenius Busbequius] (Flemish, 1522 – 1592)
	XV	Arnaud d’Ossat, Cardinal;	Arnaud d'Ossat (French, 1537 – 1604)
	XVI	Jean Zamoski	Jan Sariusz Zamoyski (Ioannes Zamoyski de Zamoscie] (Polish, 1542 – 1605)
	XVII	Jacques Auguste de Thou	Jacques Auguste de Thou [Thuanus (French, 1553 – 1617)
	XVIII	Jean de Barnevelt	Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (Dutch, 1547 – 1619)
	XIX	Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal	Cardinal Richelieu , Armand Jean du Plessis, (French, 1585 – 1642)
	XX	Jule Mazarin, Cardinal	Cardinal Jules Mazarin [Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino; Mazarini] (Itaian-French, 1602 – 1661)

Vol. 1, Book 2. Historians

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Regino Abbé de Prumy	Réginon de Prüm (German, 842 – 915)
	II	Jean Froissard	Jean Froissart (French: c. 1337 – c. 1405)
	III	Enguerand de Monstrelet	Enguerrand de Monstrelet (French, c. 1400 – 1453)
	IV	Jean Baptiste Platina	Bartolomeo Sacchi [Baptista Platina] (Italian, 1421 – 1481)
	V	Olivier de la Marche	Olivier de la Marche (Burgundian, 1425 – 1502)
	VI	Robert Gaguin	Robert Gaguin [Robert Guaguin] (French, 1433/34 – 1501)
	VII	Philippe de Commines	Philippe de Commines [Philippus Cominaeus] (Burgundian, 1447 – 1511)
	VIII	Pandolphe Collenuce	Pandolfo Collenuccio (Italian, fl. 1584)
	IX	Jean Aventin	Johann Georg Turmair [Aventin; Johannes Aventinus] (Bavarian, 1477 – 1534)
	X	François Guicciardin	Francesco Guicciardini (Italian, 1483 – 1540)
	XI	Paul Jove	Paolo Giovio [Paulus Jovius] (Italian, 1483 – 1552)
	XII	Wolfgang Lazius	Wolfgang Laz (Austrian, 1514 – 1565)
	XIII	Onuphre Panuinius	Onofrio Panvinio [Onuphrius Panvinius] (Italian, 1529 – 1568)
	XIV	Hubert Goltzius	Hubert Goltz [Goltzius] (Dutch, 1526 – 1583)
	XV	Bertrand d’Argentré	Bertrand d'Argentré [Argentraeus] (Breton, 1519 – 1590)
	XVI	Jacques Amiot	Jacques Amyot (French, 1513 – 1593)
	XVII	Fulve Ursin	Fulvio Orsini (Italian, 1529 – 1600)
	XVIII	Pontus Heuterus	Pontus de Huyter (Flemish, 1535 – 1602)
	XIX	Florimond de Remond	Florimond de Raemond (French, 1540 – 1601)
	XX	Cæsar Baronius, Cardinal	Cesare Baronio (Italian, 1538 – 1607)
	XXI	Henry Catherine d’Avila	Enrico Caterino Davila (Italian, 1576 – 1631)
	XXII	Jean Papirius Masson;	Jean Papire Masson [Papirius] (French, 1544 – 1611)
	XXIII	Emanuel de Meteren	Emanuel van Meteren [Meteeren] (Flemish, 1535 – 1612)
	XXIV	Nicolas le Febure	Nicasius le Febure [Nicolas le Fèvre (French, 1615 – 1669)
	XXV	Jean Barclay	John Barclay (Scottish, 1582 – 1621)
	XXVI	Guillaume Camden	William Camden (English, 1551 – 1623)

Vol. 1, Book 3. Jurists

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Alexandre de Tartagnis	Alexander de Tartagnis (Italian, c. 1424 – 1477)
	II	Jason Mainus	Jason of Mayno [Giasone de Mayno] (Italian, 1435 – 1519)
	III	Philippe Dece	Filippo Decio or Decius (Italian, 1454 – c. 1535)
	IV	André Alciat	Andrea Alciato [Alciati; Andreas Alciatus] (1492 – 1550)
	V	André Tiraqueau	André Tiraqueau [Andreas Tiraquellus] (French, 1488–1558)
	VI	Gabriel Mudée	Gabriel Mudaeus [Gabriël van der Muyden] (Flemish, c. 1500 – 1560)
	VII	Charles du Moulin	Charles Dumoulin (French, 1500–1566)
	VIII	François Bauduin	François Baudouin [Balduinus] (French, 1520 – 1573)
	IX	Viglius de Zuichem	Viglius Zuichemus ab Aytta [Wigle Aytta van Zwichem] (Dutch, 1507 – 1577)
	X	Tibere Decian	Tiberio Deciani [Decianus] (Itaian, 1509 – 1582)
	XI	Antoine Augustin	Antonio Agustín y Albanell (Spanish, 1516 – 1586)
	XII	Mathieu Wesenbec	Matthew Wesenbeck [Mattheus van Wesenbeek] (Belgian, 1531 – 1586)
	XIII	Pierre Peckius	Petrus Peckius the Elder [Pieter Peck; Pierre Peckius] (Netherlandish, 1529 – 1589)
	XIV	Jacques Cuias	Jacques Cujas [Cujacius] (French, 1522 – 1590)
	XV	Jean Wamese	Jan Wames [Johannes Wamesius] (Netherlandish, 1524 – 1590)
	XVI	Pierre Pithou	Pierre Pithou [Petrus Pithoeus] (French, 1539 – 1596)
	XVII	Boece Epo	Boetius Epo (Netherlandish, 1529 – 1599)
	XVIII	Antoine le Febvre	Antoine Favre [Lefebvre] (French, 1557 – 1624)

Vol. 1, Book 4. Writes and Linguists

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Jean Bocace	Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian, 1313 – 1375)
	II	Emanuel Chrysoloras	Manuel [Emmanuel] Chrysoloras (Greek, c. 1355 – 1415)
	III	Jean Argyropilus	John Argyropoulos [Giovanni Argiropulo] (Greek, c. 1415 – 1487)
	IV	François Philelphe	Francesco Filelfo [Franciscus Philelphus] (Italian, 1398 – 1481)
	V	Theodore Gaza	Theodorus Gaza [Theodore Gazis; Thessalonicensis] (Greek, c. 1398 – c. 1475)
	VI	Rudolphe Agricola	Rodolphus Agricola [Rudolphus Agricola Phrisius] (Netherlandish, 1443/1444 – 1485)
	VII	Ange Politian	Agnolo [Angelo] Ambrogini [Poliziano; Politianus] (Italian, 1454 – 1494)
	VIII	Demetrius Chalcondyles	Demetrios Chalkokondyles [Demetrius Chalcocondyles; Demetricocondyles (Greek, 1423 – 1511)
	IX	Jean Lascaris	Janus Lascaris [Ianos Laskaris] (Greek, c. 1445 – 1535)
	X	Nicolas Clenard	Nicolas Cleynaerts [Clenardus; Clenard] (Flemish, 1495 – 1542)
	XI	Jean Pierius Valerianus	Pierio Valeriano Bolzani [Giovanni Pietro dalle Fosse] (Italian, 1477 – 1558)
	XII	Jeanne Gray de Suffolck	Lady Jane Grey [Lady Guildford Dudley] (English, c. 1537 – 1554)
	XIII	Pierre Nannius	Petrus Nannius [Pieter Nanninck] (Dutch, 1496 – 1557)
	XIV	Guillaume Postel	Guillaume Postel (French, 1510 – 1581)
	XV	François Raphelenge	Frans van Ravelingen [Franciscus Raphelengius] (Flemish, 1539 – 1597)
	XVI	Jean Passerat	Jean Passerat (French, 1534 – 1602)

Vol. 1, Book 5. Italian Artists

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Jean Cimabue	Cimabue [Cenni di Pepi; Pepo] (Italian, c. 1240 – 1302)
	II	André Tafi	Andrea Tafi (Italian, 1213 – 1294)
	III	Arnoud di Lappo	Arnolfo di Cambio (Italian, c. 1240 – 1300/1310)
	IV	Giotto	Giotto di Bondone (Italian, c. 1267 – 1337)
	V	Simon Memmi	Simone Martini (Italian, c. 1284 – 1344)
	VI	Taddée Gaddi	Taddeo Gaddi (Italian, c. 1290 – 1366)
	VII	Donato	Donatello [Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi] (Italian, c. 1386 – 1466)
	VIII	André Organa	Orcagna [Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo] (Italian, c. 1308 – 1368)
	IX	Masaccio	Masaccio [Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone] (Italian, 1401 – 1428)
	X	Philippe Bruneleschi	Filippo Brunelleschi [Pippo] (Italian, 1377 – 1446)
	XI	Antoine de Messine	Antonello da Messina [Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio] (Italian, c. 1430 – February 1479)
	XII	André Verrochio	Andrea del Verrocchio [Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni] (Italian, c. 1435 – 1488)
	XIII	Frere Philippe Lippi	Fra' Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406 – 1469)
	XIV	Giorgion de Castel-Franco	Giorgione [Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco] (Italian, 1473/78 – 1510)
	XV	Antoine de Correge	Correggio [Antonio Allegri da Correggio] (Italian, 1489 – 1534)
	XVI	Bramante d’Urbin	Donato Bramante [Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio; Bramante Lazzari] (Italian, 1444 – 1514)
	XVII	Sandro Boticelli	Sandro Botticelli [Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi] (Italian, c. 1445 – 1510)
	XVIII	André Mantegna	Andrea Mantegna (Italian, c. 1431 – 1506)
	XIX	Philippe Lippi	Filippino Lippi (Italian, 1457 – 1504)
	XX	Raphael Sanzio d’Urbin	Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino] (Italian, 1483 – 1520)
	XXI	André del Sarto	Andrea del Sarto (Italian, 1486 – 1530)
	XXII	Leonard de Vinci	Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452 – 1519)
	XXIII	Jean François Rustici	Giovan [Giovanni] Francesco Rustici (Italian, 1475 – 1554)
	XXIV	Balthazar Perusi	Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, 1481 – 1536)
	XXV	Propertia de Rossi	Properzia de' Rossi (Italian, c. 1490 – 1530)
	XXVI	François Mazzuoli	Parmigianino [Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola; Francesco Mazzola] (Italian, 1503 – 1540)
	XXVII	Le Rosso	Rosso Fiorentino [Il Rosso; Giovanni Battista de' Rossi] (Italian, 1494/5 – 1540)
	XXVIII	Jean Antoine Licinio de Pordenone	Pordenone [Giovanni Antonio Licinio; Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis (Italian, c. 1484 – 1539)
	XXIX	Polidore de Caravage	Polidoro da Caravaggio [Polidoro Caldara] (Italian, c. 1499 – 1543)
	XXX	Jule Romain	Giulio Romano [Giulio Pippi] (Italian, c. 1499 – 1546)
	XXXI	Perin del Vaga	Perino [Perin] del Vaga; Piero Bonaccorsi] (Italian, 1501 – 1547)
	XXXII	Dominique Beccafumi	Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (Italian, 1486 – 1551)
	XXXIII	Baccio Bandinel	Bartolommeo [Baccio Bandinelli; Bartolommeo Brandini] (Italian, 1493 – 1560)
	XXXIV	Jean d’Udine	Giovanni Nanni [Giovanni de' Ricamatori; Giovanni da Udine] (Italian, 1487 – 1564)
	XXXV	Michel-Ange Buonarotti	Michelangelo [Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni] (Italian, 1475 – 1564)
	XXXVI	Daniel Ricciarelli	Daniele Ricciarelli [Daniele da Volterra] (Italian, c. 1509 – 1566)
	XXXVII	Titian Uccello	Titian [Tiziano Vecelli; Vecellio (Italian, c. 1488/90 – 1576)
	BN	Jeanne Ucello	Lavinia Vecellio, (Italian, 1530 - 1575). Daughter of Titian
	XXXVIII	François Primatici	Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, 1504 – 1570)
	XXXIX	Jacques Barozzi de Vignole	Vignola [Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola] (Italian, 1507 – 1573)

Vol. 2, Book 1. Theologians

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Thomas à Kempis	Thomas à Kempis (German-Dutch, c. 1380 – 1471)
	II	Hierosme Savanarole	Girolamo Savonarola (Italian, 1452 – 1498)
	III	Jean Fischer, Cardinal	John Fisher (English, 1469 – 1535)
	IV	Louis Vives	Juan Luis Vives March [Ioannes Lodovicus Vives] (Spanish, 1493 – 1540)
	V	Albert Pighius	Albert Pighius [Pigghe] (Dutch, 1490 – 1542)
	VI	Ruart Tapper	Ruward Tapper van Enkhuizen (Dutch, 1487 – 1559)
	VII	Cornille Musso	Cornelis Musius (Dutch, 1500 – 1572)
	VIII	François Richardot	François Richardot [Franciscus] (French, 1507 – 1574)
	IX	François Sonnius	Franciscus Sonnius (Belgian, 1506 – 1576)
	X	Alphonce Salmeron	Alfonso [Alphonsus] Salmerón (Spanish, 1515 – 1585)
	XI	Martin Azpilcueta	Martín de Azpilcueta [Doctor Navarrus] (Spanish, 1491 – 1586)
	XII	Louys de Grenade	Luis [Louis] de Granada (Spanish, 1504 – 1588)
	XIII	Guillaume Alan, Cardinal	William Allen [Guilielmus Alanus] (English, 1532 – 1594)
	XIV	François Panigarole	Francesco Panigarola (Italian, 1548 – 1594)
	XV	Benoist Arias Montan	Benito Arias Montano [Benedictus Arias Montanus (Spanish, 1527 – 1598)
	XVI	Jacques Davy, Cardinal du Perron	Jacques Davy Duperron (French, 1556 – 1618)
	XVII	Robert Bellarmin, Cardincal	Robert Bellarmine [Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino] (Italian, 1542 – 1621)
	XVIII	Leonard Lessius	Leonardus Lessius [Lenaert Leys] (Flemish, 1554 – 1623)

Vol. 2, Book 2. Philosophers, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Physicians

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Arnoud de Villeneuve	Arnaldus de Villa Nova [Arnaldus Villanovanus] (Spanish, c. 1240 – 1311)
	II	George de Trebisonde	George of Trebizond [Γεώργιος Τραπεζούντιος] (Greek, 1395 – 1486)
	III	Marsil Ficin	Marsilio Ficino [Marsilius Ficinus] (Italian, 1433 – 1499)
	IV	Jacques le Febure d’Estaples	Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples [Jacobus Faber Stapulensis] (French, c. 1455 – c. 1536)
	V	Nicolas Copernic	Nicolaus Copernicus [Mikołaj Kopernik; Niclas Koppernigk, Nikolaus Kopernikus] (Prussian-Polish, 1473 – 1543)
	VI	Jerosme Fracastor	Girolamo Fracastoro [Hieronymus Fracastorius] (Italian, c. 1476/8 – 1553)
	VII	Gemma Frisius	Gemma Frisius [Jemme Reinerszoon] (Dutch, 1508 – 1555)
	VIII	Jule Cæsar de l’Escale	Julius Caesar Scaliger [Giulio Cesare della Scala] (Italian-French, 1484 – 1558)
	IX	Jean Fernel	Jean François Fernel[Ioannes Fernelius] (French, 1497 – 1558)
	X	André Vesal	Andreas Vesalius (Flemish, 1514 – 1564)
	XI	Jean Baptiste Gellio	Giovanni Battista Gelli [Giambattista Gelli] (Italian, 1498 – 1563)
	XII	Pierre André Mathiole	Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (Italian, 1501 – c. 1577)
	XIII	Alexaner Picolomini	Alessandro Piccolomini (Italian, 1508 – 1579)
	XIV	Jean Stadius	Johannes Stadius [Estadius; Jan Van Ostaeyen; Jean Stade) (Flemish, 1527 – 1579)
	XV	Rembert Dodonée	Rembert Dodoens [Rembert Van Joenckema; Rembertus Dodonaeus] (Flemish, 1517 – 1585)
	XVI	Ambroise Paré	Ambroise Paré (French, c. 1510 – 1590)
	XVII	Pierre Forest	Pieter van Foreest [Petrus Forestus] Dutch, 1521 – 1597)
	XVII	Ticho Brahe	Tycho Brahe [Tyge Ottesen Brahe] (Danish, 1546 – 1601)
	XIX	Ulisse Aldrovand	Ulisse Aldrovandi (Italian, 1522 – 1605)
	XX	Jerosme Mercurial	Girolamo Mercuriale [Geronimo Mercuriali; Hieronymus Mercurialis] (Italian, 1530 – 1606)
	XXI	Charles de l’Escluse	Charles de l'Écluse [L'Escluse; Carolus Clusius] Flemish, 1526 – 1609)
	XXII	Christophle Clavius	Christopher Clavius (German, 1538 – 1612)
	XXIII	Jean Baptiste de la Porte	Giambattista [Giovanni Battista] della Porta (Italian, 1535? – 1615)
	XXIV	Louis Septal	Ludovico Settala [Ludovicus Septalius] (Italian, 1552 – 1633)
	XXV	Thomas Campanella	Tommaso Campanella [Giovanni Domenico Campanella] (Italian, 1568 – 1639)
	XXVI	Julienne Morelle	Juliana Morell [Juliana Morella] (Spanish, 1594 – 1653)
	XXVII	Galilee Galilei	Galileo Galilei [Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei] (Italian, 1564 – 1642)
	XXVIII	René Des Cartes	René Descartes [Renatus Cartesius] (French, 1596 – 1650)
	XXIX	Knelme Digby	Sir Kenelm Digby (English, 1603 – 1665)

Vol. 2, Book 3. Scientists

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Albert le Grand	Albertus Magnus [Saint Albert the Great; Albert of Cologne] (German, c. 1200 – 1280)
	II	Raimond Lulle	Ramon Llull (Spanish, c. 1232 – c. 1315/16)
	III	Christophle de Longueil	Christophe de Longueil [Christophorus Longolius] (Brabantian, 1490 – 1522)
	IV	Erasme de Rotterdam	Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus [Erasmus of Rotterdam] (Dutch, 1466 – 1536)
	V	Guillaume Budé	Guillaume Budé [Guilielmus Budaeus] (French, 1467 – 1540)
	VI	Pierre Bembe, Cardinal	Pietro Bembo [Petrus Bembus] (Italian, 1470 – 1547)
	VII	Beatus Rhenanus	Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Bild] (German, 1485 – 1547)
	VIII	Cornille Sgryver	Cornelius Grapheus [Cornelis De Schrijver] (Dutch, 1482 – 1558)
	IX	Jean Gorop Becan	Johannes Goropius Becanus [Jan Gerartsen] (Dutch, 1519 – 1573)
	X	Adrien Junius	Hadrianus Junius [Adriaen de Jonghe] (Dutch, 1511 – 1575)
	XI	Jean Sambuc	Johannes Sambucus [János Zsámboky] (Hungarian, 1531 – 1584)
	XII	Pierre Victor	Piero [Pietro] Vettori [Petrus Victorius] (Italian, 1499 – 1585)
	XIII	Marc Antoine de Muret	Muretus [Marc Antoine Muret] (French, 1526 – 1585)
	XIV	Juste Lipse	Justus Lipsius [Joest Lips; Joost Lips] (Flemish, 1547 – 1606)
	XV	Joseph de L’Escale	Joseph Justus Scaliger (French, 1540 – 1609)
	XVI	Pierre de Bert	Petrus Bertius [Peter Bertius; Pieter de Bert] (Dutch, 1565 – 1629)
	XVII	Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc	Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (French, 1580 – 1637)
	XVIII	Hugue de Groot	Hugo Grotius [Hugo de Groot] (Dutch, 1583 – 1645)
	XIX	Daniel Heinsius	Daniel Heinsius [Heins] (Dutch, 1580 – 1655)
	XX	Erice Putean	Erycius Puteanus (Netherlandish, 1574 – 1646)
	XXI	Nicolas Caussin	Nicolas Caussin (French, 1583– 1651)
	XXII	Claude de Saumaise	Claude Saumaise [Claudius Salmasius] (French, 1588 – 1653)
	XXIII	Anne Marie Schurmans	Anna Maria van Schurman (Dutch, 1607 – 1678)
	XXIII	Anne Marie Schurmans	Anna Maria van Schurman (Dutch, 1607 – 1678)

Vol. 2, Book 4. Inventors and Explorers

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Berthold Schuvarts	Berthold Schwarz [Schwartz] (German, Late 14th century)
	II	Jean Guttemberg	Johannes Gutenberg [Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (German, c. 1400 – 1468)
	III	Laurent Coster	Laurens Janszoon Coster [Laurens Jansz Koster] (Netherlandish, c. 1370 – c. 1440)
	IV	Christophle Plantin	Christophe Plantin [Christoffel Plantijn] (Dutch, c. 1520 – 1589)
	V	Paul Manuce	Paulus Manutius [Paolo Manuzio] (Italian, 1512 – 1574)
	VI	Balthasar Moret	Balthasar Moretus (Flemish, 1574 – 1641)
	VII	Christophle Colomb	Christopher Columbus [Cristobal Colon; (Cristoforo Colombo] (Italian, 1451 – 1506)
	VIII	Americ Vespuce	Amerigo Vespucci (Italian, 1451 – 1512)
	IX	Ferdinand Magellan	Ferdinand Magellan [Fernão de Magalhães; Fernando de Magallanes] (Portugese, 1480 – 1521)
	X	Hernand Cortez	Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano (Spanish, 1485 – 1547)
	XI	François Drack	Sir Francis Drake (English, c. 1540 – 1596)
	XII	Thomas Candisch	Sir Thomas Cavendish (English, 1560 – 1592)
	XIII	Gerard Mercator	Gerardus Mercator (Flemish, 1512 – 1594)
	XIV	Jean Taisnier	Jean Taisner [Taisnier; Johannes Taisnerius] (Flemish, 1508 – 1562)
	XV	Abraham Ortelius	Abraham Ortelius [Ortels; Orthellius; Wortels] (Brabantian, 1527 – 1598)
	XVI	Nicolas Tartaglia	Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (Italian, 1499/1500 – 1557)
	XVII	Orlande de Lassus	Orlande de Lassus [Roland de Lassus; Orlando di Lasso; Orlandus Lassus; Orlande de Lattre or Roland de Lattre] (Belgian, 1530/32 – 1594)
	XVIII	Philippe de Mons	Philippe de Monte [Philippus de Monte] (Flemish, 1521 – 1603)

Vol. 2, Book 5. Poets

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I	Dante d’Aligere	Dante Alighieri (Italian, c. 1265 – 1321)
	II	François Petrarque	Francesco Petrarca [Petrarch] (Italian, 1304 – 1374)
	III	Laure de Sado	Laura de Noves [Petrarch's Laura; Madame de Sade] (Italian, 1310 – 1348)
	IV	Michel Marulle	Michael Tarchaniota Marullus [Michele Marullo Tarcaniota] (Greek, c. 1458 – 1500)
	V	Balthasar de Castillon	Baldassare Castiglione (Italian, 1478 – 1529)
	VI	Marc Musure	Marcus Musurus [Markos Mousouros; Marco Musuro (Greek-Italian, c. 1470 – 1517)
	VII	Pierre Aretin	Pietro Aretino (Italian, 1492 – 1556)
	VIII	Jacques Sannazar	Jacopo Sannazaro (Italian, 1458 – 1530)
	IX	Louis Arioste	Ludovico Ariosto (Italian, 1474 – 1533)
	X	Jean Second	Johannes Secundus[Janus Secundus] (Dutch, 1511 – 1536)
	XI	Victoire Colonne	Vittoria Colonna (Italian, 1492 – 1547)
	XII	Corneille Musius	Cornelis Musius (Dutch, 1500 – 1572)
	XIII	Pierre de Ronsard	Pierre de Ronsard French, 1524 – 1585)
	XIV	Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas	Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (French, 1544 – 1590)
	XV	Torquato Tasso	Torquato Tasso (Italian, 1544 – 1595)
	XVI	Jean Dorat	Jean Daurat [Joan Dorat; Auratus] (French, 1508 – 1588)
	XVII	Philippe Desportes	Philippe Desportes [Desports] (French, 1546 – 1606)
	XVIII	Janus Douza	Janus Dousa, Lord of Noordwyck [Jan van der Does] (Dutch, 1545 – 1604)
	XIX	Scevole de Sainte Marthe	Scévole de Sainte-Marthe (French, 1536 – 1623)
	XX	François de Malherbe	François de Malherbe (French, 1555 – 1628)

Vol. 2, Book 6. Netherlandish painters

Portrait	№	Bullart name	Full name
	I-1	Hubert van Eyck	Hubert van Eyck (Flemish, c. 1385/90 – 1426)
	I-2	Jean van Eyck	Jan van Eyck (Flemish, c. 1390 – 1441)
	II	Theodore de Harlem	Bernard van Orley [Barend; Barent van Orley; Bernaert van Orley; Barend van Brussel] (Dutch-Flemish, 1487/1491 – 1541)
	III	Albert Durer	Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471 – 1528)
	IV	Roger vander Weyde	Rogier van der Weyden [Rogero Buxellensus] (Flemish, c. 1400 – 1464)
	V	Quentin Matsys	Quentin Matsys [Quinten Matsijs] (Flemish, 1466 – 1530)
	VI	Jerosme du Bois	Hieronymus Bosch [Jheronimus van Aken] (Dutch, c. 1450 – 1516)
	VII	Lucas de Leyde	Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, 1494 – 1533)
	BN-1	Lucas de Leyde	Young Man with a Skull
	VIII	Joachim Patinier	Joachim Patinir [Patenier; Ioachimo Dionatensi] (Flemish, c. 1480 –1524),
	IX	Henry de Bles	Herri met de Bles [Henri Blès, Herri de Dinant; Henrico Blesio Bovinati] (Flemish, c. 1490 – after 1566),
	X	Bernard de Bruxelles	Dirk Bouts [Dieric Bouts; Thierry Van Haarlem] (Flemish, c. 1415 – 1475)
	XI	Jean de Maubeuge	Jan Gossaert [Jan Mabuse] (Flemish, c. 1478 – 1532)
	XII	Pierre Coeck	Pieter Coecke van Aelst [Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder (Flemish, 1502 – 1550)
	XIII	Jean Holbein	Hans Holbein the Younger [Ioannes Holbenius] (German, c. 1497 – 1543)
	XIV	Henry Aldegraef	Heinrich Aldegrever (German, 1501/2 – 1555/61)
	XV	Jean Mayo	Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen [Jan Mayo; Ioanni Maio; Barbalonga] (Flemish, c. 1504 – 1559)
	XVI	Lucas Gassel	Lucas Gassel [Lucas van Gassel] (Flemish, c. 1480 – Brussels, 1568/69)
	XVII	Jean Schoorel	Jan van Scorel [Johannes Schoreel] (Dutch, 1495 – 1562)
	XVIII	Antoine Moro	Sir Anthonis Mor [Anthonis Mor van Dashorst; Antonio Moro] (Dutch, c. 1517 — 1577)
	XIX	Lambert Lombard	Lambert Lombard (Flemish, c. 1505 – 1566)
	XX	Pierre Breugel	Pieter Bruegel [Brueghel; Breughel] the Elder (Flemish, 1525/30 – 1569)
	XXI	Guillaume Cayo	Willem Adriaensz Key (Flemish, 1516 – 1568)
	XXII	François Floris	Frans Floris [Frans Floris the Elder; Frans Floris de Vriendt] (Flemish, 1519 – 1570)
	XXIII	Martin Hemskerke	Maerten van Heemskerck [Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen] (Dutch, 1498 – 1574)
	XXIV	Antoine de Monfort Bloclant	Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort [Anthonie van Blocklandt; Anthonie van Montfoort] (Dutch, 1533/34 – 1583)
	XXV	Michel Coxie	Michiel Coxie the Elder [Michiel Coxcie the Elder; Michiel van Coxcie; Coxius (Flemish, 1499 – 1592)
	XXVI	Arnoud Mytens	Aert Mijtens (Flemish, c. 1541 – 1602)
	XXVII	Henry Goltzius	Hendrick Goltzius, or Hendrik, (German-Dutch, 1558 – 1617)
	XXVIII	Martin de Vos	Maerten de Vos [Maerten de Vos the Elder; Marten de Vos] (Flemish, 1532 – 1603)
	XXIX	Paul Bril	Paul Bril (Flemish, 1554 – 1626)
	XXX	Michel Mirevelt	Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt [Michiel Jansz.; Miereveld; Miereveldt] (Dutch, 1566 – 1641)
	XXXI	Bartholomé Spranger	Bartholomeus Spranger [Bartholomaeus Spranger] (Flemish, 1546 – 1611
	XXXII	Henry Cornille Vroom	Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (Dutch, c. 1562 – 1640)
	XXXIII	Abraham Blommart	Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1566 – 1651)
	XXXIV	Octave Venius	Otto van Veen [Otto Venius; Octavius Vaenius] (Flemish, 1556 – 1629)
	XXXV	Jacques Calot	Jacques Callot (French, c. 1592 – 1635)
	XXXVI	Martin Richart	Marten Ryckaert [Maerten Ryckaert] (Flemish, 1587, Antwerp – 1631)
	XXXVII	Pierre Paul Rubens	Peter Paul Rubens (Dutch, 1577 – 1640)
	XXXVIII	Antoine Van Dyck	Anthony van Dyck (Dutch, 1599 – 1641)
	BN-2	Mary Ruthven	Mary Ruthven, Lady van Dyck (Scottish-Dutch, c.1622 – 1645)
	XXXIX	Venceslas Coberghe	Wenceslas Cobergher [Wenzel Coebergher] (Flemish, 1560 – 1634)
	XL	Jacques Francquart	Jacob Franquart (Flemish, 1582/83 – 1651)
	XLI	Theodore Rombouts	Theodoor Rombouts (Flemish, 1597 – 1637)
	XLII	Adrien Brouwer	Adriaen Brouwer (Flemish, c. 1605 – 1638)
	XLIII	Simon Vouet	Simon Vouet (French, 1590 – 1649)
	XLIV	Gerard Segers	Gerard Seghers (Flemish, 1591 – 1651)
	XLV	Gaspar de Crayer	Gaspar de Crayer [Jasper de Crayer] (Flemish, 1584 – 1669)
	XLVI	Thomas Willeborts	Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (Dutch, 1613 – 1654)
	XLVII	Daniel Segers	Daniël Seghers [Daniel Seghers] (Flemish, 1590 – 1661)

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Maurice Auguste Benyowsky. Memoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus, count de Benyowsky. — London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1904.

Title: MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS | OF | MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE | BENYOWSKY | MAGNATE OF THE KINGDOMS OF HUNGARY AND POLAND, ONE OF | THE CHIEFS OF THE CONFEDERATION OF POLAND | ETC., ETC. | Consisting of his Military Operations in Poland, his Exile into Kamchatka, | his Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern | Pacific Ocean, touching at Japan and Formosa, to Canton | in China, with an Account of the French Settle- | ment he was appointed to form upon the | Island of Madagascar | WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY | BY | CAPTAIN S. PASFIELD OLIVER || Half-title (ornamental, in black and red): MEMOIRS & | TRAVELS of | MAURITIUS | AUGUSTUS | COUNT | DE | BENYOWSKY | LONDON•KEGAN• | PAUL•TRENCH• | TRÜBNER•&•C^o 1904 || Pagination: [i, ii] – owner pasted wood engraving “A woman of Kamchatka” / Dryden House advert., [iii, iv] – serial title / MAB (years), frontis. Portrait of MAB by Walter L. Colls w/guard, [v, vi] – ornamental h.t / copyright, [vii, viii] – t.p. / list of ill., ix-xxxvi, 1-635 [636]. Collation: 2 blank leaves (binding), [a]-b⁸ c² 1-39⁸ 40⁶, 2 plates, 2 blank leaves (binding). Binding: Modern ¾ morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt fleur-de-lis-cross in compartments, burgundy label with gilt lettering, by Atkinson Book Binders, Salisbury (sticker to back pastedown). Contributors: Printed by Neill and Co., Edinburgh. Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.; Kegan Paul, Charles (British, 1828 – 1902). Author: Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky [Мориц Август Бенёвский] (Polish-Slovak-Hungarian, 1746 –1786). Editor: Samuel Pasfield Oliver (British, 1838 – 1907). Translator: William Nicholson (British, 1753 – 1815). Originally published in 1790, in London (I have not seen it anywhere) and in Dublin by P. Wogan [etc.], and in 1791 in French, in Paris by Buisson.

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Cornelis De Bie. Het Gulden Cabinet. — Antwerp: Jan Meyssens, 1661.
Engraved title page:
- In an oval cartouche at the centre, flanked by female personifications of Painting and Poetry, surmounted by an eagle, Mars and Envy chained by Cupid below: HET GULDEN CABINET | VANDE EDEL VRY SCHILDER, CONST | INHOUDENDE | DEN LOF VANDE VERMARSTE | SCHILDERS, | ARCHITECTE, BELDTHOWERS | ENDE PLAETSNYDERS | VAN DESE EEVW | DOOR | CORN: DE BIE NOTS. | TOT | LIER | 1661. ||
- In lower margin below the image frame: t’Antwerpen gedruckt by Ian Meyssens Constvercooper op de Eyermert inden goude Rexdalder | Abrah. a Diepenbeck delin. — Cornelis Meyssens sculpsit. || Handwritten inscription below: Frederik Verachter
Letterpress title: HET GULDEN CABINET | VANDE EDEL VRY | SCHILDER – CONST | ontsloten door den lanck ghevvenschten | Vrede tusschen de tvee mach- | tighe Croonen van SPAIGNIEN | EN | VRANCRYCK, | Waer-inne begrepen is den ontstersse- | lijcken loss vande vermaerste | Constminnende Geesten | ENDE | SCHILDERS | Van dese Eeuvv, hier inne meest near het | leven as-gebeldt , verciert met veel ver- | makelijcke Rijmen ende Spreucken. | DOOR | Cornelis de Bie Notaris binnen Lyer. || Pagination: 2 binder’s blank leaves, engraved t.p.,[1, 2] letterpress t.p., 3-585 [586] – approbatie, [2] – colophon / blank, 1 binder’s blank leaf. Collation: Engr. t.p., A-Aaaa⁴ Bbbb², plates within a collation.
Cornelis de Bie. Het Gulden Cabinet. — Antwerp: [J. van Montfort for] Jan Meyssens, 1661 [colophon: 1662]. First edition, quarto, with engraved title, added portrait of De Bie dated 1708 mounted and inserted*, illustrated with 97 full-page engravings of artists, and an engraving of a personification of the city of Rome repeated five times; bound in full contemporary Dutch parchment over boards, tooled in blind, titled on spine; ex libris Frederik Verachter (Dutch, 1797 – 1870), archivist of the Antwerp city library, with pages of notes in his hand, signature to title, and inserted leaf with extra biographical information about one of the 280 artists of the Low Countries profiled and illustrated in this volume; contents good; ex libris Gustave Van Havre (Dutch, 1817 – 1892), with his armorial bookplate inside the front board, 24 x 19.5 x 4.5 cm.
Catalogue raisonné: J. F. Van Someren (1888) pp. 200-202. * CORNELIUS DE BIE. ÆT. 81. 1708. | Dat Ick op D'aard Niet Anders Ben | Als Stof En Assen Ick Beken: | En Alle Mijnen Arrebeijd | Noch Van Veel Minder Weerdigheijt. || J. C. de Cock delin: — H. F. diamaer Sculpsit Antv: Ref.: Royal Collection Trust. Backer, Jacob de (Flemish, c. 1555 – c. 1585) (artist) Balen, Jan van (Flemish, 1611 – 1654) (artist) Bally, David (Dutch, 1584 – 1657) (artist) Beck, David [Beek] (Dutch, 1621 – 1656) (artist) Bie, Cornelis de (Flemish, 1627 – 1711) (author) Bloemaert, Abraham (Dutch, 1565 – 1658) (artist) Borcht I, Hendrik van der, the Elder (Flemish, 1583 – 1651) (artist) Borcht II, Hendrik van der, the Younger (German 1614 – 1676) (artist) Bouttats, Frederik, the Elder (Flemish, 1590 – 1661) (attributed to) (engraver) Bramer, Leonard [Leendert] (Dutch, 1596 – 1674) (artist) Bronckhorst, Jan Gerritsz van (Dutch, 1603-1661) (artist) Bylert, Jan van (Dutch, 1603 – 1671) (artist) Caukercken, Cornelis van (Flemish, 1626 – 1680) (engraver) Collin, Richard (Luxembourgish, 1627 – 1698) (engraver) Coques, Gonzales (Flemish, 1614 – 1684) (artist) Cossiers, Joannes (Flemish, 1600 – 1671) (artist) Danckerts de Rij, Peter (Dutch, 1605-1660) (artist) Dipenbeeck, Abraham van (Dutch, 1596 – 1675) (artist) Does, Antony van der (Flemish, 1609 –1680) (engraver) Dyck, Anthony van (Flemish, 1599 – 1641) (artist) François, Pierre (fl. 1643) (artist) Hecke, Jan van den, the Elder (Flemish, 1620 – 1684) (engraver) Heil, Daniel van (Flemish, 1604 – 1664) (artist) Heil, Jan Baptiste van (Flemish, 1609 – 1685) (artist) Heil, Leo van (Flemish, 1605 – c. 1664) (artist) Helt Stockade, Nicolaes van (Dutch, 1614 – 1669) (artist) Hollar, Wenceslaus [Hollar, Václav; Wenzel] ( Bohemian, 1607 – 1677) (artist) Hondius I, Hendrick [de Hondt] (Flemish-Dutch, 1573 – 1650) (artist) Janssens, Cornelis van Ceulen [Johnson, Cornelius] (Flemish-Dutch, 1593-1664) (artist) Jode I, Pieter de, the Elder (1570 – 1634) (engraver) Jordaens, Jacob (Flemish, 1593 – 1678) (artist) Lint, Peter van (Flemish, 1609 – 1690) (artist) Meyssens, Cornelis (Flemish, 1639 – fl.1673) (engraver) Meyssens, Joannes [Johannes, Jan, Jean] (Flemish, 1612 – 1670) Mola, Pier Francesco (Italian, 1612 – 1666) (artist) Monte, Deodat del [Mont, Deodat van der; Delmont, Deodatus] (Flemish, 1582 – 1644) (artist) Montfort, Jan van (fl. c. 1595 – 1644) (printer) Padoanino, Francisco (Italian, 1660) (artist) Poelenburgh, Cornelis van [Poelenburch] (Dutch, 1594 – 1667) (artist) Pontius, Paulus (Flemish, 1603 – 1658) (engraver) Quellinus, Erasmus, the Younger (Flemish, 1607 – 1678) (artist) Reni, Guido (Italian, 1575 – 1642) (artist) Sadeler II, Egidius (Flemish, c.1570 – 1629) (artist) Saftleven, Herman, the Younger (Dutch, 1609 – 1685) (artist) Seghers, Gerard (Flemish, 1591 - 1651) (artist) Snyers, Hendrik (Flemish, 1611 – 1644) (engraver) Soutman, Pieter Claesz (Dutch, 1593/1601 – 1657) (artist) Steen, Franciscus van der (Flemish, 1625 – 1672) (engraver) Teniers, David, the Younger (Flemish, 1610 – 1690) (artist) Venne, Adriaen van de [Adriaen Pietersz] (Dutch, 1589 – 1662) (artist) Voet, Alexander, the Elder (Flemish, 16-8/1613 – 1689) (engraver) Vorsterman, Lucas, the Elder (Flemish, 1595-1675) (engraver) Waumans, Conraed (Flemish, 1619 – 1675) (engraver) Willaerts, Adam (Dutch, 1577 – 1664) (artist)
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The memoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus count de Benyowsky… / translated by William Nicholson, edited by Captain Pasfield Oliver (The Adventure Series). — London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.

Hardcover volume in 8vo, 21.2 x 15.4 cm, tan cloth with black on gilt background circular publisher’s device "TFU" to front cover, gilt-stamped compartments and burgundy labels with gilt lettering to spine. Ink inscription to fep verso dated Jan 18, 1907. Publisher's device and serial device to h.t. Title-page: ❦❦❦ THE MEMOIRS AND | TRAVELS OF MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE | BENYOWSKY | IN SIBERIA, KAMCHATKA, JAPAN, THE LIUKIU ISLANDS AND FORMOSA | FROM THE TRANSLATION OF HIS | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT (1741–1771), | BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, F.R.S., 1790 | EDITED BY CAPTAIN | PASFIELD OLIVER | ILLUSTRATED | LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, | PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCIII ❦❦❦ ||. Collation/Pagination: [1]-25⁸plus 7 plates, incl. frontispiece and 1 map. [1, 2] – serial h.t. "The Adventure Series" / advert. THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s. 17 titles, [3, 4] – t.p. / blank, [5] 6-9 contents, [10] blank, [11, 12] illustrations/blank, [13] 14-52 introduction, 53-399, [400] colophon: THE GRESHAM PRESS, | URWIN BROTHERS, | CHILWORTH AND LONDON. Contributors: Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin (London); Thomas Fisher Unwin (British, 1848 – 1935). Author: Maurice Auguste count de Benyowsky [Мориц Август Бенёвский] (Polish-Slovak-Hungarian, 1746 –1786). Editor: Samuel Pasfield Oliver (British, 1838 – 1907). Translator: William Nicholson (British, 1753 – 1815). Originally published in 1790, in London (I have not seen it anywhere) and in Dublin by P. Wogan [etc.], and in 1791 in French, in Paris by Buisson; see LIB-2742.2021. For another copy of the same edition, see LIB-3139.2023. For the 1904 edition, see LIB-2703.2021.

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М. С. Лунин. Письма из Сибири. / Изд. подг. И. А. Желвакова, Н. Я. Эйдельман; (Литературные памятники). — М.: Наука, 1987.

Title (black and red): М. С. ЛУНИН | — | ПИСЬМА ИЗ СИБИРИ | — | Издание подготовили | И. А. Желвакова и Н. Я Эйдельман | МОСКВА | «НАУКА» | 1987 || Pagination: [1, 2] Serial h.t. / blank, [3, 4] t.p. / imprint, [5] 6-492 [4], 1 portrait and 8 leaves of plates. Collation: 16mo; [1]¹⁶ 2¹⁶ 3⁸ (plates), 4-17¹⁶. Binding: serial green buckram blind-stamped with a scroll adorned with gold lettering to board and spine.

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Lettres de Gambetta: 1868-1882 / recueillies et annotées par Daniel Halévy et Émile Pillias. — Paris : B. Grasset, [1938]; + LAS Ludovic Halévy.

Title: LETTRES DE GAMBETTA | 1868 – 1882 | recueillies et annotées par | DANIEL HALÉVY ET ÉMILE PILLIAS | ÉDITIONS BERNARD GRASSET | 61, RUE DES SAINTS-PÈRES, VI^e | PARIS || Collation: 8vo; [1]⁸ 2-42⁸, unpaginated, (336 leaves) + 4 leaves of plates extraneous to collation, untrimmed wove paper, 587 letters, printed on the 25^th of March 1938 by Floch (Mayenne); limited edition, unnumbered copy. Binding: original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, lettering to spine. Series: "Documents", pub. sous la direction de la Société d'histoire de la troisième république. Insert: Lettre Autographe Signée (LAS): Ludovic Halévy (French, 1834 – 1908). Transcript:
Mercredi, Mon cher ami, Reçois mes bien sincères et bien affectueuses félicitations. Si tu continues à marcher de ce pas tu en seras bientôt en grande situation et ce sera justice, et j’en serais bien heureux n’en doute pas. Tout à toi Ludovic Halévy
Gambetta, Léon (French, 1838 – 1882). Halévy, Daniel (French, 1872 – 1962). Pillias, Émile (French, 1905 – 1940).

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Зигфрид Кракауэр. Жак Оффенбах и Париж его времени / Перевод С. Шлапоберской; (Волшебная флейта. Из кладовой истории). — М.: Аграф, 2000.

Hardcover, 21.5 x 13.5 cm, pictorial boards, [1-4] 5-412 [2] [2]. Print run 3,000. Translation from German of the original {Siegfried Krakauer. Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit. — Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1937} by Serafima Shlapoberskaya – Шлапоберская, Серафима Евгеньевна (Russian, 1921 – 2007).

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The life and adventures of George Augustus Sala / 2 Vol. — London: Cassel and Co., 1895.

Vol. 1. Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. I. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED || Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sala by Boussod, Valadon & Cie. w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p./blank, [iii, iv] – dedication/blank, [v]-x – preface, [xi]-xvi – content, [1] 2-442, [16] advert. Collation: A-Z⁸ AA-BB⁸ CC⁵ [Advert.]⁸. Vol. 2. Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. II. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORS MOTHER) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED || Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sal’s mother w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv-viii – content, [1] 2-457-[460], [16] advert. Collation: A-Z⁸ aa-cc⁸ dd⁶ [Advert.]⁸. Binding: two volumes in uniform green publisher’s pebbled buckram, gilt lettering to spine, contemporary newspaper clippings to front and back pastedowns, vol. 2 uncut. Note: George Augustus Sala's mother was an actress Henrietta Simon Sala, known as Madame Sala, (Guyanese, British, 1789 – 1860). Here she is depicted by an engraver Thomas Alfred Woolnoth (British, 1785 – 1857) after a portrait painted by Rose Emma Drummond (British, fl. 1820 – 1840).

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Francois Le Goff. The Life of Louis Adolphe Thiers / translated from the unpublished manuscript by Theodore Stanton. — NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1879.

Title: THE LIFE OF LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS | BY | FRANCOIS Le GOFF | DOCTEUR-ÈS-LETTRES | TRANSLATED FROM THE UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT | BY | THEODORE STANTON, A. M. | {motto: Patriam dilexit, veritatem coluit.} | NEW YORK | G. P Putnam's Sons, 1879 | 182 FIFTH AVENUE | 1879 || Pagination: 2 blank leaves, frontis.: portrait of A. Thiers engraved on wood by J.I. Pease w/ tissue guard, [2] fac-simile of Thiers’s handwriting / blank, [2] - t.p. / copyright, [2] – dedication / blank, [2] – translators note / blank, [2] contents / blank, [vii] viii-xi [xii], [1] 2-353 [354 blank], [4] advert., 2 blank leaves; ill.: frontis., 1 woodcut plate, 1 folding manuscript fac-simile. Binding: dark-green cloth with bevelled margins, a gilt fac-simile of Thiers’s handwriting to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Note: The motto on the title page (Patriam dilexit, veritatem coluit) is taken from A. Thiers tomb on Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris: "He cherished his homeland and worshipped the truth".

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