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MILLOT CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS-XAVIER (1726-1785) Nachalnyya osnovaniya anglinskoy istorii: So vremen zavoevaniya rimlyan do tsarstvovaniya Georgiya Vtorago / Sochinenniya abbatom Millotom, chlenom Lionskoy i Nansiyskoy akademii

Lotto 671
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Na rossiyskiy yazyk perevedeno 1786 godu Moskovskago namestnichestva Klinskoy okrugi v selce Mikhaleve [M.I. Verevkinym] [The Initial Foundations of English History: From the Time of the Roman Conquest to the Reign of George II] / Written by Abbot Millot, Member of the Lyon and Nancy Academies; Translated into Russian in 1786 in the Klin District of the Moscow Vicegerency, in the Village of Mikhalevo [by M.I. Verevkin]: [in 3 volumes]. SPb : v tip. Gornago uchilishcha, 1786-1788 . - 8 cm. in Russian Vol. 1. 1786. – [4], 560 pages; Vol. 2. 1786. – [4], 611 pages; Vol. 3. 1788. – [4], 567 pages. Three volumes in full leather (maroquin) bindings of the period.Ornamental gold embossing on the edge of the covers. Banded spines with artistic gold embossing, labels with the title of the edition and volume number in the second and third segments of the spine. Three-sided gold trims. Endpapers made of “marbled” paper. TOrnamentation of the gold embossing of the spine of T. 3 slightly differs. In collectible condition. Minor scuffing on the bindings. On the foretitle of each volume: Stamped ex-libris of the Bibliotheque de Tsarskoe Selo (State coat of arms in an oval linear frame surrounded by the inscription Bibliotheque de Tsarskoe Selo, animalistic stamped ex-libris. Stamped ex-libris Zorin Collection on the last page with text (Vol. 1-3). The inscription “N II” on a blank leaf of each volume. Pencil ownership inscription on the verso of the blank leaf of the endpaper (Vol. 3). CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS-XAVIER MILLOT (French: Claude-François-Xavier Millot; 1726-1785) – French priest and historian. Member of the Jesuit Order, professor of rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Lyon (1750–1758); however, for praising the ideas of Montesquieu, he was expelled from the Order. Chaplain to the King of Poland (1765–1766). In 1768, he was invited to the Duchy of Parma to assist in the creation of a noble military school. In 1777, he was admitted to the French Academy, and in 1778 became the tutor of the Duke of Enghien. Author of a number of highly regarded and frequently republished works on the history of Asia, England, and France. Provenance: Library of Tsarskoye Selo Yuri Vasilyevich Zorin (1937-200?), collector, leading commentator for Voice of America in the 1980s-1990s. Bibliography: SK XVIII. No. 4244.


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