1675 Hadrian Valesius Notitia Galliarum ordine litterarum digesta antique FOLIO

 Valesius, Hadrian

Notitia Galliarum ordine litterarum digesta.

Paris: Leonard, 1675

Principal work of Adrien de Valois (1607-1692).
Etymological and topographical lexicon of proper names of places, waterways, mountains, forests of France recorded in ancient authors such as Caesar, Ptolemy, Strabo, Merovingian chroniclers such as Gregory of Tours or Fredegar, in the Lives of Saints, etc.

Woodcut device on title.

[8], xxvii, [1], 632, [48] pages, including errata. 


Original calf, spine gilt in 7 compartments; spine and tips chipped with loss, some foxing, generally sound

 J. J. Combes Brossard ink ex-libris on title.

Folio. Size 9.5 by 14.5 inches

Text in Latin
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"Hadrianus Valesius" :
Adrien de Valois (1607-1692), a French poet and historian, also known as Hadrian Valesius or Hadrianus Valesius.
He was the author of works such as the Excerpta Valesiana, a collection of historical fragments from a 9th-century manuscript, he published in 1636, which are named after him.  
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