The history of the Russian Empire, . from its foundation to the death of the illustrious Empress Catherine, consort and successor of Peter the Great. ... In two volumes. ...
John Mottley (1692-1750)
Category
Books
Date
1757
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3030873
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates ; 8vo. (20cm). Marked: "2 vol." [price torn away]". Variously marked: "3.C" (in ink); "L.E.2" (in pencil); "D 3/1" (red pencil). Provenance: Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century armorial bookplate showing Stewart arms impaled with Pratt arms, flanked by two supporters, underneath an earl's coronet. Motto "Metuenda corolla draconis", lettered "Londonderry" [used by either Robert Stewart (1739-1821) cr. 1st Earl of Londonderry in 1796, cr. 1st Marquess of Londonderry in 1816, or his second wife Lady Frances Pratt (ca. 1751-1833), dau. of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, edges sprinkled blue. Sewn on recessed cords, brown leather spine label lettered in gilt.
Makers and roles
John Mottley (1692-1750)