Shelfmark
Fq.2.02 - Fq.2.06
Author
Title
Methode pour etudier l'histoire, avec un catalogue des principaux historiens, & des remarques sur la bonté de leurs ouvrages, & sur le choix des meilleurs editions. Par M. l'abbé Lenglet du Fresnoy. Nouvelle edition, augmentée & ornée de cartes géographiques. Tome premier [-IV].
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Pierre Gandouin, Quay des Augustins, à la belle Image., M. DCC. XXXV. [1735]
Physical description
4 v. : maps, letterpress tables ; 26 cm. (4to)
Note
Pagination: v.1: xxii, [2], 504 p., [11] fold. leaves of plates; v.2: [6], 496 p., [12] fold. leaves of plates; v.3: [10], 336 p.; v.4: [6], 452 p.
Note
Printer's statement of "la veuve Louis-Denys Delatour" at end of vol 4.
Note
Engraved head-pieces.
Note
A "Supplement de la methode ..." was published in 1740.
Provenance
Engraved bookplate of Alexander Hamilton, Esq. with motto "Nuncia pacis" and armorial device incorporating cinquefoils, hearts and stars.
Provenance
Circular engraved bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
18th-century sprinkled brown calf; recent rebacking in calf, retaining original gold-tooled spine and red morocco spine labels.
Copy-specific note
Pencil price on vol 1 front free-endpaper: "& Supp[lemen]t 5 V" with price 5 guineas.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted slip with ms. notes in a contemporary English hand (vol 1, p. 39).
Copy-specific note
Previously: Cp.3.17-Cp.3.20; Ce.3.02-Ce.3.05; Co.5.13-Co.5.16.
Subject
History Study and teaching Early works to 1800.
Subject
History Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Armorial bookplates.
Added entry--name
Gandouin, Pierre, 1673 - 1743 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Delatour, Veuve de Louis-Denis printer.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B38903