[Rarebooks] fa: Abbe de Vertot - HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN SWEDEN 1723 - Full Panelled Calf

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Abbe Rene-Aubert de Vertot: The History of the Revolution in Sweden, Occasion’d by the Change of Religion, and Alteration of the Government, in that Kingdom. Written Originally in French, by the Abbot Vertot: Printed at Paris. And now done into English, by J. Mitchel, M.D. London: Printed for M. Poulson, in Barbican, and W. Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by J. Darby, A. Bettesworth Close, A. Bettesworth, in Pater-Noster-Row, and F. Clay, without Temple-Bar, 1723. The fifth edition. Early/period panelled calf with gilt-tooled spine and morocco spine label; 8vo; [24] + 312 pp.; woodcut initials and decorations. ESTC T81945.

Binding with bumping and wear to the corners, modest rubbing; very occasional faint spotting and soiling to the leaves, four leaves (L2-L6) with a small amount of marginal worm damage; else quite clean and bright, firmly bound. Engraved armorial bookplate of George Uppleby, Esq. [of] Barrow, Lincolnshire. A handsome copy of this English translation of Vertot's Histoire des révolutions de Suède, first published in 1695.