Saverien, Alexandre. - Histoire des Philosophes Modernes Avec leur portrait gravé dans le goût du crayon ... - 1773/1760

Third edition. A biographical compendium of noted scientists and philosophers from the 16th to 18th centuries, noted for the illustrations by the French engraver Jean Charles Francois (1717-1769), innovator of the crayon method. Amongst the luminaries included are Hobbes, Locke, Clarke, Grotius, Wollaston, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Halley, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, Boyle, Hartsoeker, Paracelsus, Boerhaave, Gesner, Hales and Reaumur.
Saverien (1720-1805), wrote several books on marine science. He also edited the French edition of Maclaurin’s Traité des Fluxions (1749).

8 vols, 8vo; I. pp. lvii, [3], 360; II. pp. lix, [1], 366; III. [ii], [lxxvi], 377, [1]; IV. pp. lxxx, 309, [1]; V. pp. [ii], lxxxviii], 273, [1]; VI. pp. [ii], [ii], 398; VII. pp. [ii], lxvi, 300; VIII. pp. [ii], [v]-lxxxii, [ii], 258; in all 16 engraved title-pages and frontispieces and 72 portraits and allegorical plates, nearly all soft-ground etched engravings in the style of chalk using the crayon method; occasional light foxing and soiling, sporadic light marginal dampstaining, otherwise clean and crisp; contemporary marbled calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, tooled in gilt, two morocco labels lettered in gilt, head-bands exposed on volumes VI and VIII, light wear to the heads of all spines with minor nicking, occasional soiling and staining to covers, extremities lightly worn.