Histoire du Monde,. par M. Chevreau
Category
Books
Date
1698
Materials
Place of origin
The Hague
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3252970
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 volumes ;. Engraved frontispiece and title pages,. 15cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: Former Dyrham Park manuscript shelf numbers on front pastedowns: 'C no-12' to 'C no-16' in black ink; manuscript running numbers in brown ink, struck through: 1291 to 1295. Volume 1 contains a manuscript exhibition label, undated. Binding: early eighteenth-century sprinkled brown leather over boards; sewn on five raised bands; red sprinkled edges; gold tooling to spine; 'histoi du monde' and volume number lettered in gold directly on spine.