Speckled brown calf binding with raised banding with red title plate, gilt decoration and title on the spine.

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• Clavis Historiae Thuanae. Id Est, Nomenclatura Nominum Propriorum, Quae in Illustris Viri Jacobi Augusti Thuani Operibus Historicis Usurpantur (1696)

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Very, very rare. A solid part-work. Written in Latin to avoid persecution and to produce a scientific and unbiased work. Originally compiled by Dupuy and published in Geneva in 1634. This is a revised edition and the first published with the title “Clavis.” Title translates to: Nomenclature of Proper Names in the Historical Work of Jacques Auguste de Thou. Please view the photographs to see the quality of this book.

Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus) (8 October 1553, Paris – 7 May 1617, Paris) was a French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement of Paris.

Jacques Dupuy (or Jacques du Puy or Monsieur de Saint Sauveur ), born in Tours onSeptember 24, 15911 and died in Paris onNovember 17, 1656, is a French librarian and scholar, son of the humanist magistrate Claude Dupuy and brother of Pierre Dupuy , with whom he formed a famous pair, the “Dupuy brothers”.