VERTOT (A.) History of the Knights Hospitallers... Lot 47

VERTOT (A.) History of the Knights Hospitallers of S. John of Jerusalem, called since then the Knights of Rhodes, and today the Knights of Malta. Rollin, Paris, 1726. 4 volumes large in 4° 29,5 x 22 cm. Very nice copy in large paper Uniformly bound in full glazed brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurons title and tomaiosn on red maroq piece. 5 ff.n.ch., 696 pp, 719 pp, 535 pp, 4 pp, 1 ff.n.ch., 221 pp, 536 to 552, 240 pp, 408 pp, XX pp. First edition. Collated. Portrait of Vertot in frontispiece, 4 title vignettes, 5 folding maps, map of Rhodes and 70 intaglio portraits, 5 of which not numbered. At the end of volumes 3 & 4 list of the brothers knights of Saint John of Jerusalem by region and by country, the statutes of the order of Saint John of Jerusalem. A very fine historical work and therefore very critical. Quérard X -128, Brunet V -1149 As often some rare quires slightly yellowed.