PREVOST, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS.

Histoire de Guillaume le Conquérant, duc de Normandie et roi d'Angleterre. 2 vols.

Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1742.

8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and blindstamped ornamentation to spine. Ex-libris (Peter Collett (1767 – 1823), was a Danish judge and writer) pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. Wear to extremities, internally nice and clean. (4), XL, 400 pp. + frontispiece; (4), 426, (6), XXIV pp.

Uncommon first edition of Prevost's influential work on William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England. 

Order-nr.: 61634