Details
VERTOT, René Aubert de. The History of the Knights of Malta, London: for G. Strahan (and others), 1728, 2 volumes, 2° (340 x 224mm.), titles in red and black, 5 engraved maps and plans, 2 folding, 2 double-page, 71 engraved portraits (occasional light browning and staining, one plate torn and soiled, a few plates and text leaves with short tears, occasionally with slight loss, small hole at margin of vol. I), contemporary calf (worn, lower cover and final leaf of volume one detached). (2)
Provenance
"Given by Grace St. Albans to her husband 10th Duke of St. Albans. Bought at Nottingham" (inscription on front free endpaper); armorial bookplate.