The history of the knights of Malta : By Mons. L'Abbe de Vertot. Illustrated With LXXI. Heads of the Grand Masters, &c. Engraved by the best Hands in France, from the Original Paintings, under the Inspection of Mons. Bologne, Director, of the Royal Academy of Painting. With Maps by Mons. de Lille, and the Plans and Fortifications of Malta by the Chevalier de Tigne. And a compleat Index to the whole. In Two Volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vertot, abbé de, 1655-1735.

Standardized Title:

Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de St. Jean de Jerusalem. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knights of Malta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates ) ports. ;

Other Title:

History of the knights of Malta.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for G. Strahan in Cornhil; F. Gyles over-against Grey's-Inn in Holborn; Mess. Woodman and Lyon in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; D. Browne without Temple-Bar; Mess. Groenewegen, Prevost, and Vanderhoeck, in the Strand; C. Davis in Pater-Noster-Row; and T. Osborne near Grey's-Inn Walks, MDCCXXVIII. [1728]

Notes:

Titlepages in red and black.

The ornaments are those used by William Bowyer and Henry Woodfall; Bowyer's ledgers show him as printer of parts of each volume of this work, and show 700 ordinary and 55 large-paper copies printed.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1307

English Short Title Catalog, T53873.

OCLC:

642627542