Histoire de la ville Et de l’Estat de Geneve. Depuis les premiers Siecles de la fondation de la Ville jusqu’à present

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 2 volumes in 12mo. pp. [18], 376, [5] (last blank), ff. [3] (plates). Contemporary calf. Gilded spine elevated on 4 bars, remnants of spine label. Clean tear in large fording plate neatly repeared. Includes plates, maps (partly folded). Printer's device on title page. Contains headpieces, engraved initials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First, scarce edition of a major local history. The enlarged quarto reprint (Geneva, 1730) is traditionally preferred as the ‘best’ edition, but the entire section of inscriptions (II, pp. 285-395) is unchanged from its appearance here, fifty years earlier. Spon was a believer of the the forgery based on a fabricated epitaph by Paulus Merula, a Latin text on the tombstone of the my