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The Fourth Edition. Four Volumes (complete set with all maps and plates). Quarto (27 cm x 22 cm). Collation: Volume I: Frontispiece, XLVI, XLVI, 634 pages with 10 plates and 3 maps / Volume II: Frontispiece, XXXII, XXXII, 668 pages with 8 maps / Volume III: Frontispiece, VI, 694 pages with 5 maps / Volume IV: Frontispiece, VII, 464 pages plus 76 unnumbered pages of a General Index and 1 plate and 1 map. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with gilt lettering and labels on spine. Interior of this set with all maps and illustrations in excellent, very clean condition. The boards of the bindings with abrasions and some bumping but overall very firm. Some stronger peeling of the leather on board of Volume I, Only three pages with minor tears. The large map of Northern Africa (Palestine, Egypt and Libya) with a minor tear. The stunning maps and plates in timeless beauty. Highly underestimated work, in the shadow of Gibbon but with meticulous detail in presenting the geographical impact of the Roman Conquest. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Chapters, Maps and Plates included in this work are: Volume I deals with "Remarks on the History of the Seven Roman Kings" and includes a number of excellent folded maps and several engravings illustrating Roman Warfare and Siege-Tactics: Maps: 1. Folded Map of Latium / 2. Folded Map of Gallic Liguria with Germany's Black Forest to the North / 3. Map of Great Greece (this being the south of Italy with Sardinia and Corsica and Greece only partially shown to the east) Plates: 1. The beautiful, large and folded Plan of Rome (33 cm x 26.5 cm) - Titled: "A Plan of Rome, containing its several Additions from the time of Servius Tullius to that of its being taken by the Gauls" / 2. Roman Citizen's in Toga / Roman Warfare - Illustrations: 1. Rams / 2. Trictinium / 3. Roman Soldier and General / 4. Roman Army in Battalion Formation / 5. Roman Bucklers / 6. Covered Galleries / 7. Tower / 8. Terrassos / Volume II includes the largest number of folded maps (all measuring c. 52.5 cm x 43 cm) and also the section with the "Fasti Capitolini" - "The Capitoline Marbles or Consular Calendars": Maps: 1. Ancient Sicily / 2. Illyricum (Greece)/ 3. Spain with the Baleares / 4. Africa and Numidia / 5. Macedonia / 6. Asia Minor (Turkey with Byzantium) / 7. Epirus, Thessaly and Achaia / 8. Pelopennesus / Volume III includes "A Dissertation on the History of the First 500 Years of Rome" and includes 5 folded maps: Maps: 1. Map of part of the Roman Province Liguria Transalpina, Languedoc, Provence / 2. Map of Coldius, Iberia, ALbania and the neighbouring Country / 3. Folded Map of Media / 4. Folded Map of Belgium / 5. Folded Map of Celtica Aquitania [France] and the Roman Province / Volume IV includes two illustrations only but these are of importance and show: 1. Large Folded plate with the Battle of Pharsalia / 2. The Extra - Large folded map "Aeqyptus Antiqua - Libya" with an inset of Asia Minor (Turkey) and Palestine. This map measures 52.5 cm x 43 cm and has a minor tear only. Nathaniel Hooke (c. 1687 19 July 1763) was an English historian. He was the eldest son of John Hooke, serjeant-at-law, and nephew of Nathaniel Hooke the Jacobite soldier. He is thought by John Kirk to have studied with Alexander Pope at Twyford School, and to have formed a lifelong friendship there. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 6 February 1702. Caught up in the South Sea Bubble, he sought patronage. He dedicated to the Earl of Oxford a translation from the French of Andrew Michael Ramsay's 'Life of Fénelon' (published in 1723), London. Other patrons were Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, François Fénelon, Pope, George Cheyne, and William King, principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. When Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough required help with her memoirs, Hooke was recommended to her. He accordingly waited upon the age.
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