La vie de Philippe II, roi d'Espagne. Traduite de l'italien de Regorio Leti.
Leti, Gregorio
Category
Books
Date
1734
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223095
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 12mo. (17 cm). Imperfect: vols. 1-4 only. Inscribed in vol. 1: "6 vol. I.C.". Marked "D5/7"; L F1"; "2.D". 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, five raised bands. Brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt "La vie de Philip.II. Tom.I[-VI]. Edges sprinkled red and blue. Shades of former labels on foot of spine.
Makers and roles
Leti, Gregorio