Utrecht.Corneille Guill.Lefèvre.1731.2 vols.in-4 en reliure d'époque.Dos à 5 nerfs ornés avec pièces de titre et de tomaison.Tranches mouchetées.BE.Portraits dans le Tome II.
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Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Humbert, 1731. 4to. In a very nice contemporary full Cambridge-style binding with five raised bands, richly gilt spine and blindstamped ornamental borders to boards. Gilt line-borders to boards. All edges of boards with blind stamped ornamentation. A very nice and clean copy. (4), XVII, (1), 355, (5), 406, (18) pp. + 10 engraved portraits.
First edition of this early standard work on the Hussite Wars widely regarded as being one of the most reliable accounts of the Hussite War, the Council of Basel, and the rise of Adamites.Graesse IV, 161 Brunet III, 976.