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Rene Aubert de Vertot : Histoire Des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean De Jerusalem. Applellez Depuis Les Chevaliers De Rhodes. Et Audjourd’hui Les chevaliers De Malte

Rollin, Quillau, Desaint, Paris, c.1726

Orginal full speckeled calf. Six raised bands in seven compartments. Tooled gilt lettering and floral motif on spine. Title in black and red. , A fine and handsome set in full decorative period calf. All plates and maps are clean., 4to (190mm x 260mm), P.Vol. 1: Frontis, Title, Dedication (2), Preface (6), Approbation (2), 1-696; Vol 2: Title, Blank, 1-719; Vol 3:Title, Blank, 1-552; Volume 4: Title, Blank, 1-408, Correction & Additions 209-221, Table des Matieres Contenues dans le quatrieme Volume (i-xviii), Illustrated with 6 maps and 71 plates including frontis , Volume : 4 Volumes

De Vertot was a very important French Historian born in 1655


In 1690, at the suggestion of Fontenelle and the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, he wrote his Histoire de la conjuration de Portugal. The book was received with favour, and in 1695 appeared theHistoire des révolutions de Suède (History of the Swedish revolutions).

In 1703 Vertot was made a member of the Académie des inscriptions. Besides contributions to the Mémoires of the Académie and other minor works, he wrote the Révolutions romains (1719) and then his important work on the Knights of St. Jean (Malta), the Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem.
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