MAUVILLON (Éléazar de). Histoire de Pierre I. surnommé le Gr - Lot 20

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MAUVILLON (Éléazar de). Histoire de Pierre I. surnommé le Gr - Lot 20
MAUVILLON (Éléazar de). Histoire de Pierre I. surnommé le Grand, empereur de toutes les Russies. Roi de Sibérie, de Casan, d'Astracan, grand duc de Moscovie, c. c. c. À Amsterdam et à Leipzig, chez Arkstée et Merkus, 1742. In-4, (10 of which the 2nd is blank)-492 pp. with title printed in red and black, marbled brown calf, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, filleted edges, red edges; binding rubbed with worn headpieces and corners, some marginal dampening (period binding). ORIGINAL EDITION OF THIS LIFE OF PIERRE THE GREAT (1672-1725), one of Russia's greatest tsars. ILLUSTRATION OF 35 ENGRAVED COMPOSITIONS ON COPPER: 5 hors texte (a portrait-frontispiece, 4 maps and plans, including one of the battle of Poltava), and 30 in the text (including 27 depictions of medals relating to the reign of Peter I). HISTORIAN, PHILOLOGIST, TRANSLATOR, ÉLEAZAR DE MAUVILLON (1712-1779) was initially a Lutheran pastor in Tarascon, but had to leave France and move to Germany: private secretary to Elector Augustus of Saxony, now King of Poland (died 1733), he was then tutor in Leipzig, professor at the university there, and finally professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick. He published a number of works, including the present history, philological treatises, a sequel to Abbé Prévost's Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité, and masonic discourses. Provenance: Jesuit seminary of Vals-près-Le-Puy (ex-libris stamp on title, and ex-libris vignette on first flyleaf).
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