Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, appellez depuis les Chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd?hui les Chevaliers de Malte. Par M. l?Abbé de Vertot. 1-4.
VERTOT, Réne-Auber de.
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Paris, Chez Rollin, Quillau, Desaint, 1726. 4to. Engr. portrait,+ (12),+ 696 pp.+ 25 engr. plats,+ 3 fold. engr. maps; (2),+ 719 pp.+ 19 engr. plates,+ engr. plan over Rhodes; (2),+ 552 pp.+ 5 engr. plates,+ 2 fold. engr. maps; (2),+ 240,+ (2),+ 4,+ 2,+ 408,+ 221,+ (1),+ XX pp.+ 21 engr. plates. With 4 engr. vignettes. Minor foxing and a few minor spots, page 317-318 in part 3 with small paper repair and page 151-152 in the last pagination in volume 4 with a tear. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt with beige and blue labels, red marbled edges. Four volumes, a minor tear at the spine of volume four and some spotting on the spines. Graesse VI, 288. Brunet V, 1149. Cohen-de Ricci 1011. A fine set, complete with 6 engraved maps and 70 engraved portraits. First edition of Vertot?s important work on the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller and later Knights of Rhodes and Knights of Malta. It was also published in an 8vo edition the same year and reprinted several times. A German edition was published in 1728, translated Justus Christoph Dithmer. The Abbé and French historian Réne-Auber Vertot (1655-1735) started with two succesful works, on Portugese history, ?Histoire de la conjuration de Portugal?, and on Swedish history, ?Histoire des révolutions de Suède? (1695) respectively. He was made a member of the Académie des inscriptions in 1703 and beside contributions to the Mémoires of the Académie and other minor works he wrote ?Révolutions romains? (1719) and finally his main work ?Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem? The work display an heroic struggle between the Christians, led by the frenchmen, and the Infidels. The papacy however was treated with no respect and it was immidiately condemned by the Order of Malta and put on the Index in Rome of forbidden books in 1728. Seller Inventory # 63265
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