Vertot abbot (30 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book delves into the tumultuous history of the Roman Republic, chronicling its rise from a small city-state to a vast empire. The author masterfully weaves together military campaigns, political struggles, and social transformations, offering a nuanced perspective on the Roman Re…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, delving into the key factors that contributed to its remarkable success and eventual demise. The author examines the early years of the Republic, where a spirit of unwavering liberty, epitomized by a commitment to frugality a…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Printed for Tim. Child, at the White Hart in St. Paul's Church-yard, London, 1711, 3rd edition. Full leather binding. Panelled front and rear boards with blind stamped decoration to corners of borders. Five raised binds to spine. 7.75ins x 5ins, [xx], 160pp (part one), 148pp (part two) plus folding m…

Full-Leather. Condizione: Good. Rubbed leather contemporaneous boards have been given a new leather spine of a paler hue. Internally endpapers soiled; title page lightly soiled; occasional marks in text but generally clean and tight. Pp (1) + (28) (preface and contents), 312 + 38 (An Enquiry), (2) ads + (2). Size: 12mo - over 6¾…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8 x 5", contemporary blindstamped leather, 312pp, covers rubbed and darkened with small abrasions, extremities bumped and lightly chipped, spine and gilt-lettered red leather spine label dull, old bookplate erased inside front cover, endpapers toned, but still a nice, sharp and fairly SCARCE tit…

Leather Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Sixth Edition. The Sixth edition. Attractively bound in full brown period calf, spines with raised bands, twin black morocco labels, and elaborate gilt floral tooling with what appear to be stylized peacock motifs within gilt-ruled compartments, edges red (some rubbing, volume I lacks volu…

Leather. Condizione: Good. An early English translation of Rene-Aubert Vertot's history of Portugal's revolutions, in full panelled calf. A contemporary English translation of Revolutions de Portugal. "Done into English from the last French edition".In contemporary full panelled calf. Lacking endpapers, but retaining original bl…

First Thus. 8vo. hardback in full panelled calf with dark red title label, gilt, rebacked using original boards. All edges speckled red. viii, iv, 138pp. plus [10] Index. With engraved frontispiece and decorative head and tail pieces. Old ink initial and numbers plus small modern bookplate to front pastedown. Some light foxing t…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. , vol.I part I [14] lxxvi [10] 1-280 [24] pages, vol I part II, [12] 281-653 [33] pages, vol II, part I, [8] 1-318 pages, vol.II part II [8] 323-676 [58] pages, Vol.III [2] 1-535 [49], red and black title pages, decorative headpieces and capitals First English Edition , 5 volumes, contemporary panell…

Leather. Condizione: Good. First edition. The very scarce first English edition of this history of the Portuguese revolution, originally written in the French by Rene-Aubert Vertot. The first English translation of Rene-Aubert Vertot's history of the Portuguese revolution of 1640.Very scarce.Bound in full speckled calf, with rai…

Leather. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. The second English translation of this revolutionary history of Sweden. A scarce work, translated from the French of the Abbot Vertat by J Mitchel. Illustrated, with a folding map. The Abbot Vertat as stated to this title page, is also known as the Abbot Vertot. Rene-Aubert Vertot was a Fre…

Contemporary full calf with blind-tooled borders and blind floral cornerpieces, rebacked expertly in six compartments of raised bands, gilt brown morocco label on two. , This is the English translation of the original French text., Size : Small 8vo, P. title, preface, contents, 175 pp., catalogue 8 pp. Our copy lacks the index,…

Two volumes bound within a single book. Collates as [fp], [ffep], [V1 title leaf], i-vi, 1-356, [V2 half-title leaf, V2 title leaf], 1-243, [rfep], [rp]. Contemporary (i.e. 1700s) leather binding; some charring and surface losses to boards' and spine's leather; front board detached with rear board quite tenuous; board edges worn…

, vol.I part I [14] lxxvi [10] 1-280 [24] pages, vol I part II, [12] 281-653 [33] pages, vol II, part I, [8] 1-318 pages, vol.II part II [8] 323-676 [58] pages, Vol.III [2] 1-535 [49], red and black title pages, decorative headpieces and capitals First English Edition , the original covers are slightly worn and chipped particula…

Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. In nice acid-patterned calf leather binding, raised banding and gilt decoration to spine, with black leather label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some rubbing to extremities; Cornerschipped, rubbing to edges and spine, surface scuffs to boards. some minor handl…