Vertat Abbot (3 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. 4th Edition. Hard bound in full leather boards. 2 parts bound in one volume. Full leather boards are worn with weak front hinge just holding. No map. Previous owner's name and book plate on front end paper. Pages show foxing and toning, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. brown boards with outline leaf decoration no dw, leather spine most probably renewed 176 pages. Text clear and legible. The abott's surname is usually spelled Vertot not Vertat as here. Printed for Matt. Gilliflower, Tim Godwin, Mat Wotton, Rich. Parker and Benj. Tooke.

Leather. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first English edition of this history of the Portuguese revolution, originally written in the French by Rene-Aubert Vertot. The first English translation of Rene-Aubert Vertot's history of the Portuguese revolution of 1640.Very scarce.Bound in full speckled calf, with raised bands and embossed detailing. Bound with contemporary endpapers and blanks. Loss to the rear endpaper.Vertot was a French clergyman and historian who also published histories on revolutions in Sweden and the history of the Knights Hospitallers.This is perhaps his chief work, written at the suggestion of Fontenelle and the Abbe de Saint-Pierre, which chronicles the key figures and events of the Portuguese Restoration War (1640-1668).ESTC No.Register: A4, B-H12, I4.Collated, complete. Bound in full speckled calf, with raised bands and embossed detailing.Externally, generally smart, with rubbing to the extremities and cracking to the joints, which remain firm. Plain diamond label to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are toned, with light occasional spots. Darker spots to the endpapers and blanks. Front free endpaper is worn to the gutter. Loss to the rear endpaper. Good. book.