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GASSENDI, P. Viri illustris Nicolai Claudii Fabricii de Peiresc, senatoris aquisextiensis vita. The Hague, A. Vlacq, 1651. (16), 600, 58, (44) pp. W. engr. portr. 16°. Mod. limp vellum. (Ti-p. a bit soiled, some browning).
A biography of the French cleric, savant, lawyer and conseiller of the Parlement of Provence. "Through this book Peiresc and his work came to be known to many who had neither visited his collections and library (…) nor exchanged letters with him" (DSB X, 488-92).€ 120
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