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.
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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