Beschrijving
Paris, Ledoux et Tenrë, 1818-1819, complete in 6 volumes, attractive full leather binding with tooled spine, tooled gilded edges, gilt ornaments and lettering, viii+737+599+593+582+599+603 pages, normal wear and tear to spines front and back, very good set of this history of Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine. Jean-Baptiste Louis Crévier (1693-1765) was a French author. He was born in Paris, where his father was a printer.
He studied under Rollin, and held the professorship of rhetoric in the college of Beauvais for twenty years. He completed Rollin's Histoire romaine by the addition of six volumes (1750-1756); he also published two editions of Livy, with notes; L'Histoire des empereurs des Romains, jusqu'à Constantin (1749);[1] Histoire de l'Université de Paris, and a Rhétorique française, which enjoyed much popularity (wikipedia).
