The history of the revolutions that happened in the government of the Roman Republic.
Abbé René-Aubert de Vertot d'Auboeuf (1655-1735
Category
Books
Date
1770
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3179621
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ; 8vo. Incorrect upper board with preliminary leaf bearing half title: Les six codes; on verso: Imprimerie de Casimir, Rue de la Vieille-monnaie, no 12, Près la rue des Lombards et la place de Châtelet; pencil manuscript on pastedown: 193 Codes. $aSmall slip of paper as pagemarker: p. 67. Provenance: (v.1) nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]; (v.2) nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "William Gibbs" [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]. Inscribed on endpapers in separate hands: Anthony Gibbs [i.e. Antony Gibbs (1756-1815)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt on spines and board edges; five raised bands; gilt lettered spine label: Vertot's Roman revolutions. Detached calf upper board with triple blind fillet border on vol. 1.
Makers and roles
Abbé René-Aubert de Vertot d'Auboeuf (1655-1735 John Ozell (d.1743)