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HISTORY] MARCHAND (Prosper)] Historical Dictionary, or Critical and Literary Memoirs Concerning the Lives and Works of Various Distinguished Figures, Particularly in the Republic of Letters, The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1758–1759 Two volumes in one large quarto volume, bound in full leather with cold-stamped designs on the covers, ribbed spine: (4) pages, 330 pages, (6) pages, then (4) pages, 328 pages, (38) pages of tables First (and only known) edition of this dictionary by the bookseller Prosper Marchand, conceived as a supplement to Bayle’s dictionary. The work is illustrated with a plate, a genealogical table of the Estienne family, and in-text figures depicting medals. Binding is slightly rubbed.