Description
Gauttier d’Arc, E[douard]. Histoire des Conquêtes des Normands, en Italie, en Sicile et en Grèce, accompagnée d’un atlas: Premiere Epoch 1016 – 1085. (Paris: L. de Bure, 1830) – History of the conquests of the Normans, in Italy, in Sicily and in Greece, accompanied by an atlas.
Bound with:
Gauttier d’Arc, E[douard]. Atlas de L’Histoire des Conquêtes des Normands, en Italie, en Sicile et en Grèce, et de leur etablissement en Italie et en Sicile de L’Annee 1016 – 1140. (Paris: L. de Bure, 1830)
Scarce
Octavo. xxxiv, 504 pages. Atlas (2 title pages and 10 pages map and illus.) bound at rear of volume, folded. Hardcover. Quarter-bound in period cloth covers and what might be a recent leather spine with raised bands picked out in gilt, all in dark blue. Leather label stamped in gilt with author and title. Marbled end-papers. Bookplate of S. P. Scott on front paste-down.
Condition: VG+, all maps and illustrations present. Corners lightly bumped, scattered foxing.
Provenance: S. P. Scott (Samuel Parsons Scott) – (1846-1929) was a lawyer, banker and book collector who, upon his death, donated his estate to build a library at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia – leaving his wife with a token of his esteem. “…because on account of the insults, outrages, cruelty, disgrace and humiliation which she has constantly and without reason, during my entire married life, heaped upon me”, he left her $75,000 of his 3 million dollar estate. The library also got the majority of his books.
“Edouard Gauttier d’Arc, born on in Saint-Malo and died on in Barcelona, was a French diplomat , orientalist , translator and writer. Gauttier d’Arc was one of the founders of the Société de Géographie (1821), of which he was the first secretary.” – fr.Wikipedia.com
