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Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Line engraving after C. Mellan.

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Line engraving by L. Vorsterman, 1646, after A. van Dyck.

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Line engraving by R. Gaywood, 1656, after C. Mellan.

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Line engraving by C. Mellan after himself.

Viri illustris Nicolai Claudii Fabricii de Peiresc, senatoris Aquisextiensis, vita ... in qua praeter admiranda ... gesta, historicae et antiquariae rei latentes thesauri aperiuntur, abstrusiores matheseos arcana reserantur, nec non artis et naturae singularia enarrantur / [Pierre Gassendi].

Peiresc's Europe : learning and virtue in the seventeenth century / Peter N. Miller.

The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand.

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The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand.