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FORGERIES -- RAVENEAU, Jacques. Traité des inscriptions en faux et reconnoissances d'escritures et signatures par comparaison et autrement. Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1666.
8o (141 x 81 mm). 2 engraved plates of coat-of-arms, one folding table. Contemporary calf (some light wear).
FIRST EDITION of the first book on autograph forgeries and faked documents. Raveneau, a calligrapher of repute, was "Maistre Escrivain Iuré à Paris, employé au Parlement, & en toutes autres Iurisdictions, pour la verification des Escritures & Signatures." He gives an extensive classification of documents, manuscripts and signatures faked throughout or in part, also dealing with pen, penmenship, paper, erasures, etc. See Quérard Les supercheries littiraires divoilies 313 (for the 1673 edition).
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FIRST EDITION of the first book on autograph forgeries and faked documents. Raveneau, a calligrapher of repute, was "Maistre Escrivain Iuré à Paris, employé au Parlement, & en toutes autres Iurisdictions, pour la verification des Escritures & Signatures." He gives an extensive classification of documents, manuscripts and signatures faked throughout or in part, also dealing with pen, penmenship, paper, erasures, etc. See Quérard Les supercheries littiraires divoilies 313 (for the 1673 edition).