Antoine du Verdier (11 November 1544 – 25 September 1600),Du Verdier, Antoine (1544-1600)
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Publications

* '' Prosopographie, description des personnages-insignes, avec portraits'', Lyon, 1573 * ''Bibliothèque d'Ant. Duverdier, contenant le catalogue de tous les auteurs qui ont écrit en français'', 1585, valuable work of

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, reprinted in 1772–1773 with that of the La Croix du Maine.

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Portrait, à Cartari, Vincenzo (1531 - ca 1571): Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur (1581)
* La Croix du Maine, Antoine du Verdier, "Les Bibliothèques françoises", Paris, Saillant & Nyon, 1773, numbered by Google Books : *
1st volume
La Croix du Maine, volume 1 *
2nd volume
La Croix du Maine, volume 2 *
3rd volume
Du Verdier, volume 1 *
4th volume
Du Verdier, volume 2 *
5th volume
Du Verdier, volume 3 *
6th volume
Errata, epitomes bibliothecae gesnerianae, etc.
Antoine du Verdier
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