Author: Vertot, Abbot de.
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTIONS that happened in the government of the Roman Republic. Written in French by the ..., of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions, &c. English'd by Mr. Ozell from the original newly reprinted at Paris, with amendments and additions by the Author himself, in almost every Page: Besides not a few essential Alterations and Corrections in. This Fourth Edition more than in any of the preceding ones, either French or Dutch. ... . To which is prefixed, A Translation of a Memorial sent from London by the late Earl Stanhope to the Abbot De Vertot at Paris; containing divers Questions relating to the Constitution of the Roman Senate. With the Abbot's Answer.
Description: London : printed for J. and J. Knapton, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, J. Pemberton, W. Innys, J. Osborne and T. Longman, R. Robinson, E. Symon, , 1732. 4th Ed. 2 vols. [18],xxii,425,[iii] + [4],408p. Title pages within double rule. Decorative head pieces including some pictorial, dec. tail pieces and initial letters, frontiss., 2 folding maps. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary mottled calf, double gilt rule to edges of boards, extremities sl. rubbed with upper corner to lower board of vol. 2 bumped, joints starting to crack though firm, attractive gilt lettered compartments with gilt lettered labels to spines with sl. loss to heads. ¶ ESTC T81015. ‘With a frontispiece in each vol., and a final leaf of advertisements in vol.1.’ René-Aubert Vertot (1655–1735) French clergyman and historian. He first published the above title as ‘Révolutions romains’ in 1719.

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