Dissertations By the Celebrated Abbots de Vertot and Anselm

A very scarce volume of three insightful essays by the Abbes Vertot and Anselme. A very scarce work.A volume of three essays written by Rene-Aubert Vertot and Antoine Anselme, translated into English.The three essays are titled: 'An Enquiry whether the Kingdom of France, from the Establishment of that Monarchy, has been an Hereditary or Elective State', 'A Dissertation on the Oaths of the Ancients', and 'A Dissertation concerning the Monument which supply'd the Defect of Writing among the First Historians'.This edition was translated into English by M. Paschoud, Chaplin to the Earl of Albemarle.Rene-Aubert Vertot and Antoine Anselme were both French preachers active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and were both influential and successful during their lifetimes.Register runs as A2-A8, B-K8, L4.Bound without leaf A1. In a full calf binding. Externally, front board is detached but present. Leather has detached from the rear board. Loss to the front board. Lacking the backstrip. Light bumping to the extremities. Light marks to the leather. Leather is rubbed. Endpapers are detached but present. Lacking the paper to the paste downs, and leaf A1. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are little age-toned and generally clean, with scattered spots and handling marks.The occasional pencil mark to the margins. Title page has been repaired, with a small chip. Title page is detached but present. Dedication leaf is working loose. Tidemark to the tail of the textblock. Fair.…