PERRAULT, Claude. Les Hommes Illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siecle: avec leurs portraits au naturel, Paris: chez Antoine Dezallier, 1696-1700, 2 volumes, 2° (430 x 280mm.), engraved allegorical frontispiece, vignettes and 104 portraits including the 2 suppressed portraits and text of Arnauld and Pascal bound at the end of volume one (frontispiece lightly browned, occasional browning, mainly to text), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed, upper cover of volume one scuffed). [Brunet IV, 509] (2)