đźšš Free Worldwide Shipping on All Orders!Shop Now
1 / 2
Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republicks.
The second edition of this historical work by travel writer and MP Edward Wortley Montagu Junior on the ancient republics of Sparta, Athens, Thebes, Carthage, and Rome, with reflections also on the British constitution.
Montagu (1713-1776) was the son of his namesake-father, the British MP and diplomat Edward Wortley Montagu, and his wife, the aristocratic writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who is chiefly remembered today for her Turkish Embassy Letters. The younger Montagu accompanied his parents to Constantinople in 1716, and was the first Englishman to be inoculated for smallpox.
Second edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front pastedown and free endpaper, a little toned; contemporary sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, joints rubbed and cracked at spine ends but holding, spine ends rubbed with loss to caps; [6], 388, [4]pp.
ESTC T98246.
Montagu (1713-1776) was the son of his namesake-father, the British MP and diplomat Edward Wortley Montagu, and his wife, the aristocratic writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who is chiefly remembered today for her Turkish Embassy Letters. The younger Montagu accompanied his parents to Constantinople in 1716, and was the first Englishman to be inoculated for smallpox.
Second edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front pastedown and free endpaper, a little toned; contemporary sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, joints rubbed and cracked at spine ends but holding, spine ends rubbed with loss to caps; [6], 388, [4]pp.
ESTC T98246.
$100.51
Original: $335.02
-70%Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republicks.—
$335.02
$100.51Product Information
Product Information
Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
Description
The second edition of this historical work by travel writer and MP Edward Wortley Montagu Junior on the ancient republics of Sparta, Athens, Thebes, Carthage, and Rome, with reflections also on the British constitution.
Montagu (1713-1776) was the son of his namesake-father, the British MP and diplomat Edward Wortley Montagu, and his wife, the aristocratic writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who is chiefly remembered today for her Turkish Embassy Letters. The younger Montagu accompanied his parents to Constantinople in 1716, and was the first Englishman to be inoculated for smallpox.
Second edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front pastedown and free endpaper, a little toned; contemporary sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, joints rubbed and cracked at spine ends but holding, spine ends rubbed with loss to caps; [6], 388, [4]pp.
ESTC T98246.
Montagu (1713-1776) was the son of his namesake-father, the British MP and diplomat Edward Wortley Montagu, and his wife, the aristocratic writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who is chiefly remembered today for her Turkish Embassy Letters. The younger Montagu accompanied his parents to Constantinople in 1716, and was the first Englishman to be inoculated for smallpox.
Second edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front pastedown and free endpaper, a little toned; contemporary sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, joints rubbed and cracked at spine ends but holding, spine ends rubbed with loss to caps; [6], 388, [4]pp.
ESTC T98246.
