Lot n° 300
Estimation :
100 - 120
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 70EUR
[DUBIGNON, Abbé]. - Lot 300
[DUBIGNON, Abbé].
Histoire critique du gouvernement romain, où, d'après les faits historiques, on développe sa nature & ses révolutions, depuis son origine jusqu'aux Empereurs & aux Papes. Paris, Guillyn, 1765. 1 vol. in-12. Full contemporary blond calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, triple gilt fillet with corner fleurons, ornate spine with faux-nerves, green morocco title-piece, gilt edges.
According to Barbier on the work: "This history is taken from the work of Em. Duni sur l'origine et les progrès du gouvernement civil de Rome, whose work Abbé Dubignon appropriated without warning the reader. See Duni's letter, in the 'Gazette littéraire de l'Europe', Feb. 1766, p. 421." >Bearing the arms of Jean-Joseph de Bourguignon-Bussière, known as the Marquis de la Mure, (1721-18..) with his motto: "Contra Hostem Surrectus."
Handwritten notes bearing the dates 1789 and 1820 on the last leaf.
A fine copy.
Barbier, II, 649. O.H.R. pl. 2245.
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue