René Aubert de VERTOT

New edition after the original published in 1695.
Contemporary full brown grained sheep bindings. Smooth spine decorated. Title label and volume label in red morocco. A lack at the tail of volume I and volume II. Corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Rather good copies.
The success of this work by Vertot never wavered during a century, and one cannot count the reprints of this work in the 18th century, as well as of the author's other works including those titled Révolutions. A chronological summary of Swedish history follows the chronological history established by the author.
18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Auzeran, from Languedoc, argent three bars gules.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author in the first volume, 6 maps and plans, and 70 engraved portraits hors-texte, including 65 depicting the Grand Masters of the Order of Malta. (cf. Brunet, V, 1149. Cohen 1011. Saffroy 5420.)

Some restorations to the joints, early marginal annotations at the bottom of pages, library stamp on all three volumes, the third of which is bound slightly differently with regard to the gilt tooling; a loss on the endpaper of the first volume, which has been partially cut out.

A good copy.

The illustrations are distributed as follows:

Volume 1: 1 frontispiece, 3 folding maps, and 26 full-page...