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3. "Remarque sur l'usage des pièces mentionnées cy-après qui servent à l'ornement dune Galère extraordinaire et ordinaire." fo. 851. Besides the numerous drawings which accompany these descriptions, there is inserted at p. 878, a large engraving of a beautiful galley called Reale de France, date...
4. "Noms des pièces des ornemens des Galères que l'ou travaille dans la sale des voiles à l'arcénal, avec la quantité des marchandises qui leur est necessaire." fo. 880.
folio. A large and elegant Volume neatly written and illuminated, containing a French translation by Pierre Berccure or Bercheur, of the first ten books of Livy. The work commences with a dedication to John II. King of France, in which the author states that he had undertaken his translation at...
folio. A very large and beautiful Volume, neatly written on fine vellum and embellished with seventy-eight paintings in camaieu gris of considerable merit for the time in which they were executed, being part of a French translation of the once popular and celebrated work of Vincent of Beauvais,...