Histoire de Pierre I. Surnommé le Grand [...]. Enrichie de plans de batailles et de médailles.

3 vol., 12mo: portrait-[26]-464, portrait-[2]-404, front.-504 pp.; 16 pl. (some soiling and sm. foxing, marg. ink stains on p. 27 in vol. I, some tears strengthened: to 1st pl. of vol. I, one in text without loss to p. 135 of vol. II and to the 1st pl. of vol. II, portrait of Catherine censored in vol. II, sl. damp stain in lower margin of vol. III).

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands (occ. sm. traces of use, labels scratched to front pastedowns).

First edition illustrated with 2 portraits (Peter the Great and Catherine I), 1 frontispiece, 16 fold. plates (medals, castle of Croonslot, plan of the battles of Poltava and Pruth) and 3 headpieces. The historian Éléazar de Mauvillon (1712-1779) was Secretary of the King of Poland. A 4to edition was also published the same year.
Ref. Barbier II:730.
Prov. "Cabinet de lecture" J. Bardin in Brugge (label). - Stamp on titles.
Joined: Vertot, René Aubert de - Histoire des révolutions de Suède, où l'on voit les changements qui sont arrivez dans ce royaume au sujet de la religion & du gouvernement. Cinquième édition. The Hague, A. Van Dole, 1734. 2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo (foxing, marg. damp stains.). Contemp. marbled calf. (4 vol.)