René Aubert de VERTOT
Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem, appelez depuis les chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd'hui les chevaliers de Malte[The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, styled afterwards the Knights of Rhodes, and at present the Knights of Malta]
Desaint • Rollin • Quillau|Paris 1726|19 x 26 cm|Relié
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 portraits.<
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