Casimir FRESCHOT
Nouvelle relation de la ville & république de Venise, divisée en trois parties, dont la première contient son Histoire générale : la seconde traite du Gouvernement & des mœurs de la nation : et la troisième donne connoissance de toutes les familles patrices, employées dans le gouvernement[A New Account of the City and Republic of Venice, Divided into Three Parts: the First Containing Its General History; the Second Treating of the Government and Manners of the Nation; and the Third Giving an Account of All the Patrician Families Employed in the Government]
Guillaume van Poolsum|Utrecht 1709|9.7 x 15.7 cm|Relié
First edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece by J. Goeree engraved on copper, as well as a copper-engraved armorial vignette at the opening of the text (cf. Barbier, III, 560. Quérard, III, 212. Not held at the BnF. Not recorded in Fossati Bellani.)
Contemporary half tawny calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and blind-stamped fleurons now almost entirely faded, red morocco title label, a restoration to the head of the spine, marbled paper boards, early 19th-century binding,
A small black ink stain to a blank endpaper.
The work discusses, among other subjects, the Republic’s losses in Greece, the battles of Lepanto and the Dardanelles...
€1,300