Lot n° 374
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VERTOT, Abbé de. - Lot 374
VERTOT, Abbé de.
History of the Knights Hospitallers of S. John of Jerusalem, since called Knights of Rhodes, and today Knights of Malthe. Amsterdam, Wetsteins & Smith, 1732. 4 vols. in-12. Full contemporary blond calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title-pieces and green morocco tomes. Frontispiece, [9] ff, 614 pp, 2 plates ; 582 pp, 2 maps ; 618 pp, 1 map.
Work containing a frontispiece, a portrait of the author and four folding maps.
Missing volume V.
New edition increased with the Statutes of the Order and the Names & Arms of the Knights ; and enriched with Figures, Maps and Plans.
>Exemplaire de Geoffroy-Macé Camus de Pontcarré. (Burgundy). An ardent collector, he built up one of the richest libraries of the time, with more than three thousand works, which he had to sell in 1759.
Handwritten note indicating the provenance.
Missing headpieces, slight spotting, foxing on some leaves.
O.H.R. pl. 1503, n°1. Brunet V, 1149.
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