Traité historique des monnoies de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie jusques a present. Par Mr. le Blanc.
François Le Blanc (d.1689)
Category
Books
Date
1690
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3214562
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], lii, 419, [17] p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 6244. Front fly-leaf (or leaf pi1) cut out, stub remains. Provenance: manuscript inscription (partially erased) on front pastedown: "Collated & perfect" [i.e. note written by the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)]. Manuscript initial (crossed-out) on front pastedown: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription in twentieth-century hand in pencil on front pastedown: "Rawlinson's copy. With Louis d'or plate inserted at p. 390" [i.e. written by Cecil Clarabut, the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser]. Manuscript code at head of front pastedown: "t m c" [c underlined]. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf (rubbed); sewn onto five raised bands; gold-tooled spine; brown goatskin label with gilt title on spine. Red and brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
François Le Blanc (d.1689) Franz Ertinger (1640-1710)