Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, writer and linguist.
Artist: Klime
Date:1790
Size 10 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:854
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Antoine Houdar de la Motte 1672-1731
French author. De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux, was a complete failure, and so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the Trappistse
Artist: de Delpech
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2168
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac 1597-1654
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author in Baroque Précieuses style, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of the Académie française.
Artist: After Mellan
Date:1654
Size 10 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:630
Charles Jean Francois Henault 1685-1770
Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general of taxes, Ferme générale, was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college, Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother was Françoise de Ponthon (died 1738)
Artist: Voyez
Date:
Size 18 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2112
Elizabeth Jane Weston 1582-1612
Elizabeth Jane Weston was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry. She had the unusual distinction for a woman of the time of having her poetry published.
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:883
Josef Anton Stefan Riegger 1742-1795
An eminent teacher of jurisprudence, who was also author, imperial councilor, censor of books, etc., and whose principal field of labor was the University of Freiburg, was born at Innspruck, Feb. 13, 1742. He wrote his first work — a review of the works of Plautus and Terence when scarcely fifteen years of age, became master in philosophy in 1761, and in 1764 entered on his first position as a teacher in the Theresianum.
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1771
Samuel Stryk 1640-1710
Samuel Stryk, also spelled Stricke, Stryck, Striccius, Strick, Stricke, Stryckius, Stryke, Stryken, Strykius (born November 22, 1640 in Lenzen; died July 23, 1710 in Halle (Saale)), was a German jurist. He is considered one of the most important figures in the development of German law in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Usus modernus pandectarum.
Artist: Delsenbach
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1710
Jacques Auguste de Thou 1553-1617
French historian and collector, called ‘president’ after his rank in the Paris Parliament
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:955
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier 1755-1838
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier, was a notable French politician and political writer during the First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy. He was the youngest of a large family belonging to the poorer nobility
Artist: N.Maurin
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2201