Histoire de la ville Et de l’Estat de Geneve. Depuis les premiers Siecles de la fondation de la Ville jusqu’à present
Tirée fidellement des Manuscrits, Par Iac. Spon Docteur Medecin Aggregé au College de Lyon. Tome I
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Word Count
104,000 words, Guess
Page Count
416 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL58595583M
- OCLC Control Numberbib_fict_5654477_1
Description
<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 mythical priestess of Aventicum, ‘Julia Alpinula,’ a victim of Rome’s transalpine conquests later celebrated by Byron and many others as a heroine of first-century Helvetia. ‘Spon [...] swallowed all of Merula’s Geneva inscriptions as gospel’ (A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, p. 48). </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991042155179707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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