Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Stanyan, Temple. Histoire de Grèce. Traduite de l’Anglois (by Denis Diderot). 3 vols.

Titles in red and black. With engr. title vignette in all vols. and engr. folding map in vol. I. LII, 216 pp.; 2 leaves, 350 pp.; 2 leaves, 250 pp., 11 leaves index. Small 8vo. Contemp. boards with ms. spine label (corners bumped, minor rubbing in parts). – Amsterdam, aux dépens de la compagnie, 1744.

French edition of Stanyan’s (1677–1752) “Grecian History”, finished in 1739. The present Diderot translation was first published in Paris in 1743. – Nice and clean copy. – Best.-Nr. 12625