TABLEAU DE L'HISTOIRE MODERNE, DEPUIS LA CHUTE DE L'EMPIRE D'OCCIDENT, JUSQU'À LA PAIX DE WESTPHALIE ; POUR SERVIR DE SUITE À L'HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE DE M. BOSSUET, & D'INTRODUCTION À L' HISTOIRE MODERNE DES CHINOIS, DES JAPONAIS, ETC DE M. L'ABBÉ DE MARSY (THREE VOLUMES)
Paris, France: Saillant & Nyon / La Veuve DeSaint, 1778. "Nouvelle Edition". Hardcover. IN FRENCH. Three matching volumes: 12mo, 6.8 in. x 3.8 in. Volume I: lix, [1], 432. Volume 2: pp. 525. Volume 3: 541, [1]. Full speckled calf with decorative gilt frame to fronts and backs. Gilt title on red and black panels to spine, with gilt decoration and bandlines to spine. Pink ribbons, faded at ends. Rubbing to edges and corners, with chipping to spine caps of Volume 1 and 2. Sunning to spines. Bit of cracking to rear gutter of Volume 1, and front gutter of Volume 3. Marbled endpapers. Printed marginalia. Bookseller's sticker to top of front pastedown. Spines and hinges tight. Good Plus. Item #100662
Title translates: "A panorama of modern history, from the fall of the Western Empire to the Peace of Westphalia; to serve as a sequel to Bossuet's Universal History, and as an introduction to Abbé de Marsy's Modern History of the Chinese, Japanese, etc."
Price: $225.00