In two volumes. xxix, [1], 482; [6], 535pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary decorated paper boards, hand drawn fleur-de-lis motifs in red ink to upper boards, hand-ruled in green, gilt-tooled calf onlays, calf lettering-pieces, all edges red. Lightly dust-soiled. Brocade endpapers, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I, occasional light spotting. A late nineteenth-century edition of Roscoe's life of Pope Leo X, first printed in 1805. Though the work did not win the same critical approval as his life of Lorenzo de' Medici (1795) it nevertheless found a broad readership throughout Europe and the Americas; indeed even the inclusion of the Italian translation in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum did not halt it's circulation within the Papal States. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # AQ21525

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Title: The life and pontificate of leo the tenth

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [s.d., 1883?], [London]

Binding: Hardcover

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Established 2007, Antiquates Ltd is an Antiquarian bookseller with a large, custom built shop in the heart of the Dorset countryside. We sell fine and rare books from our Wareham shop, in catalogues, and via our website (www.antiquates.co.uk). Specialising in early printed books both English and Continental, fine English Literature, and books by, for, and about Women and Children, we nevertheless stock a wide range of works on paper from 1500-present - including modern first editions. Our bias is towards the unusual, the interesting and the important - and always have a good stock of rare books by local authors such as T.E. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy; we are just the place if you're looking for an extra-special gift for a wedding, birthday, anniversary or graduation. (Open Wednesday - Saturday, 10am-4pm)

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The Conifers, Valley Road, Corfe Castle, Dorset, BH20 5HU, United Kingdom

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