Histoire de Zénobie, Impératrice-Reine de Palmyre, par M. Euvoi de Hauteville, B.D.C. &c. [History of Zenobia, Empress Queen of Palmyra]
by Hauteville, Euvoi de, B.D.C. &c. ; Jouve, Joseph-Baptiste, 1701-1758 ; Le Mercier, P.-G., syndic
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A Paris : Chez les frères Estienne, rue Saint Jacques à la Vertu; [De la Imprimerie Moreau], M. DCC. LVIII. (1758), 1758. Fair. [4], xxiv, 357, [3] pp. ; 18 cm. ; (12mo) ; Euvoi de Hauteville, B.D.C. &c. (as well as Vojeu De Brunem, B. & P.D.M.) is a pseudonym for le Prieur Joseph Jouve, the academic and Jesuit from Lyon, author (or rather arranger) of an important work on t he Tartar conquest of China in 1754 ; two "livres" bound as one with a single title page ; Signatures: pi2 a12 A-P12. ; OCLC: 9910144 ; full leather with raised bands, gold tooling and lettering, spine label ; fore-edge in red ; chipping to hinges ; an unfortunate stain running up from the bottom affects half the book, most notably pgs 150-159 ; printer's device of the Estienne Brothers on the title page ; some pages uncut ; only 5 copies held : at Yale, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, NY Public and Southern Methodist University ; text in French ; scarce ; FAIR
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- Histoire de Zénobie, Impératrice-Reine de Palmyre, par M. Euvoi de Hauteville, B.D.C. &c. [History of Zenobia, Empress Queen of Palmyra]
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- Hauteville, Euvoi de, B.D.C. &c. ; Jouve, Joseph-Baptiste, 1701-1758 ; Le Mercier, P.-G., syndic
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- A Paris : Chez les frères Estienne, rue Saint Jacques à la Vertu; [De la Imprimerie Moreau], M. DCC. LVIII. (1758)
- Date Published
- 1758
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