Comte Lancelot TURPIN DE CRISSE
Memoires de Montecuculi
Chez Arkstée et Merkus|A Amsterdam • & à Leipzig 1770|12.50 x 20 cm (In-8)|3 volumes reliés
New illustrated edition with a portrait as frontispiece, 3 title vignettes, and 41 folding plates. According to Brunet, the first octavo edition following the original quarto published in 1769 of these Commentaries. Title pages printed in red and black.
Contemporary full mottled calf binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt-tooled. Beige morocco title-piece, black basane volume label. Head of volume 2 restored. Surface abrasions on the boards, polished with wax. Traces of rubbing. A handsome copy, the paper of remarkable freshness.
Ex libris with 18th-century armorial bookplate of Biel D. de Lislemont.
€1,200