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This work - says the author in his Warning - includes what is most essential and most important in the History of Italy.
It is attributed by Barbier to Jean-François de La Croix de Castries. This text evokes emperors, kings and popes for the Vatican, Rome and Sicily -
Jean-François de La Croix is a French writer who lived in the second half of the 18th century. Nothing is known of the life of this fruitful compiler, who published, under the veil of the anonymous, a large number of works on education and history.
Jean-François de La Croix de Castries - Italian Anecdotes From The Destruction Of The Roman Empire In The West Until Our Days - 1769
Good condition of the binding, work in its beautiful marbled calfskin (contemporary binding), damaged headdress, slight smears on the covers, decorated ribbed spine, title label in red morocco, red edges -
Good interior condition despite numerous browned pages, foxing. Correct condition all the same, pretty bands, beautiful initials, end caps, marbled flyleaves -
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