Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729. 8vo. In a very nice contemporary full calf Cambridge-style binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Gilt frames to boards and blind-tooled ornamentation to edges of boards. Light wear to extremities with minor loss of leather to boards. Title-page in red and black. Small worm-tract to lower inner margin, far from affecting text. A fine and clean copy. (6), 613, (5) pp. + 3 folded table, wanting the frontispiece.
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Second edition of this biography of Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great, Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727.Provenance: From a large Danish estate. Barbier & Billard II, 219
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Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729. 1 vol. in-12, veau brun granité, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, tranches jaspées de rouge. Reliure de l'époque, coiffes refaites grossièrement, coins émoussés, qq. épidermures, mors fendu en tête et en pied. Bon exemplaire. Portrait h.-t. en frontispice gravé à l'eau-forte par Houbraken, et 4 planches h.-t. repliées, titre en rouge et noir, (2) ff., 613 pp., (5) pp. Rousseurs.
Seconde édition de cette biographie de Catherine Ière, épouse de Pierre le Grand, impératrice de Russie de 1725 à 1727. La première édition avait été publiée à La Haye en 1728. Rousset de Missy, publiciste protestant d'origine française réfugié aux Pays-Bas avait publié auparavant la biographie de Pierre le Grand. Peu commun. Haag IX, 57; Quérard VIII, 243.
Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729. 8vo. In contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities and some of gilting to spine worn off. Title-page in red and black. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. (6), 613, (5) pp. + 3 folded plates and 1 frontispiece.
Second edition of this biography of Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great, Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727.Provenance: From a large Danish estate. Barbier & Billard II, 219