£60
Roman Historiography in the European Enlightenment. Description historique de l'Italie en forme de dictionnaire, two-volume set, Avignon: Chambeau, 1790, volume I with engraved allegorical title, complete with map and 40 plates, contemporary calf over green papered boards, losses to calf, split but stable, monogrammed library stamps to each title: C.G. within in a circle in red, volume I with a British peer's fragmentary morocco library label: MC surmounted by a coronet, each pastedown with a printed blue paper shelf label: Topography, Travels, &c. No 1305, 8vo, [&] [Necker (Karl Friedrich)], Description du gouvernement present du corps germanique appellé communément le Saint Empire romain [...], [?Geneva]: s.n., 1741, discreet repairs to margin of title-page and signatures [Y8] and Z1, in-keeping 20th century calf gilt, 8vo, (3)
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