DICTIONARY OF HISTORY, 9 volumes, MORÉRI, Le grand dictionnaire historique.

DICTIONARY OF HISTORY, 9 volumes, MORÉRI, Le grand dictionnaire historique. MORÉRI, LOUIS. Le grand dictionnaire historique ou le mélange curieux de l´histoire sacrée et profane, qui contient en abrégé l'histoire fabuleuse des Dieux et des Héros de l'Antiquité , les vies et les actions remarquables.l'établissement et le progrès., les généalogies. 2nd ed. 1-6 + Supplement 1-3. Basel, Jean Brandmuller / veuve de Jean Christ, 1733, 1743-45. Folio (385x265 mm. binding). Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full calf bindings with richly gilt spines in compartments, title labels in yellow and green, red edges. 9 volumes. Second edition. Compare Brunet III, 1901 (other editions). A fourth supplemental volume was published in 1749. First published in 1674, it was expanded in several successional editions by other authors until the final edition in ten volumes, 1759. The supplemental volumes are by Claude-Pierre Goujet. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically, with articles on places, people, books, and general subjects intermixed. Tsar Peter the Great is supposed to have commanded a Russian translation, and an Italian translation was projected.Provenance: Karl Joar Westman (1939-2022), Swedish lawyer and banker, also an entrepreneur in India and Sri Lanka. He was a devoted collector of antiques, paintings, sculpture, arts and crafts and not least of books. He was the son of the minister and professor K. G. Westman and his wife Margit, née Printz.

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