Collection of engraved portraits of the XVIIth century

Collection of engraved portraits, titled “Le Cours des Écclésiastiques”. Very high volume formed in the middle of the XVIIth century compresing about 331 glued portraits, mostly of religious persons, french and flemish, of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. In folio, in brownish calf binding of the time (ca 1660). Some defects to the binding. We can notice names of engravers as : M. Lasne, M. Baes, Ragot, Couvay, Mellan, Daret, Bolswert,… A table and many inscriptions of the XVIIth century folow the prints (a drawn portrait with lavisch included). Provenance : bibliothèque Ferdinand Dubois de Fosseux (1742 Arras + 1817 Paris), maire d’Arras, homme de lettres et membre de sociétés savantes. He oned the hôtel Dubois de Fosseux in Arras, built in the midle of the XVIIIth century. Rare example of a volume with engraved portraits, established around 1660 in France.