GUEUDEVILLE, Nicolas].- Le grand theatre historique, ou nouvelle histoire universelle, tant sacrée que profane, depuis la creation du Monde, jusqu’au commencement du XVIII siecle. Contenant una fifidéle & exacte description de ce qui s'est passé de plus memorable sous les quatre premières Monarchies, des Assyriens, des Perses, des Grecs, & des Romains, comme aussi des Monarchies qui leur ont succedé, et ce qui concerne commement le peuple Juif, & qui se trouve dans la Sainte Écriture & ailleurs, avec la suite de l'Histoire Romaine...- A Leide: Chez Pierre Vander Aa, 1703.- 5 tomos. em 2 vols.: il.; 36 cm.- E. I - [34], 544 col. em [272] p.; II - [4], 742 col. em [371] p.; III - [4], 478 col. em [239] p.; IV - [4], 620 col. em [310] p.; V - [4], 770 col. em 385 p., 152 p. Monumental edition, profusely illustrated, published without the author's name, usually attributed to the French Benedictine translator and historian Nicolas de Gueudeville (1652-1721). The five volumes include the following copperplate prints: dedication to King Frederick William of Prussia (double), an allegorical title, a world map (double), 2 double prints and 10 portraits printed separately, more than 650 illustrations integrated into the text (±110x145 mm). Copy with slight browning, light handling and occasional stains; World map with tears in the folds, without lack of support. Contemporary bindings, entirely made of burnished sheepskin, a little worn, with loose joints, preserving the original marbled paper endpapers. Brunet, II, coll. 1699. Graesse, III, p. 184.