VERTOT, René Aubert de. Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, appelez depuis les Chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd'hui les Chevaliers de Malte, Paris: Rollin, Quillau & Desaint, 1726, 4 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 70 engraved portrait plates, 6 maps and 4 headpieces, titles in red and black (upper corner in vol. I dampstained throughout, beginning and end of vol. II dampstained, one map with reduced margins, occasional light browning), contemporary calf (worn). [Brunet V, 1149] (4)