Vies des plus célèbres marins

First collected edition. The various parts composing this collection were first published separately from 1780 to 1786. The volume numbering is placed on the half-title. The thirteenth part which completes the collection is absent from this set, the second part of the life of Tourville being missing. 11 portraits at frontispiece. The life of Ruiter is divided into 2 volumes and is found in the second part of the fifth volume and in the first part of the sixth volume. The edition is composed of certain volumes from the first editions to which a half-title has been added.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Red sheep title label, black sheep volume label. Head of first volume worn down, head of second volume partly torn away. Head of volume 5 partly worn. Tail of volume 4 with loss. A cut at tail of volume 3. Most corners bumped. Set rubbed and worn.
Volumes 1 and 2: Barberousse and Corneille Tromp. Volumes 3 and 4: Cassard and Doria. Volumes 5 and 6: Forbin and Du Quesne. Volumes 7 and 8: Jean D'Estrées and Victor-Marie D'Estrées; Jean Bart. Volumes 9 and 10: Dugay-Trouin and Ruiter. Volumes 11 and 12: Ruiter and Tourville. Explanation of naval terms at end of volume VII.