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GORDON, Alexander (1692-1755). The Lives of Pope Alexander ...

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GORDON, Alexander (1692-1755). The Lives of Pope Alexander ...

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GORDON, Alexander (1692-1755). The Lives of Pope Alexander VI. And His Son, Caesar Borgia. London: [Samuel Richardson] for C. Davis and T. Green, 1729.

2 parts in one volume, folio (356 x 229 mm). Separate title-pages with continuous pagination, 2 full-page engraved portrait frontispieces, wood-engraved head-pieces. Full contemporary mottled calf ruled in gilt, rebacked to style, red speckled edges, dentelles, marbled endpapers. Provenance: James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose (1682-1742), engraved armorial bookplate, subscriber, and dedicatee of part I.

FIRST EDITION, SUBSCRIBER’S COPY of one of the major literary works of the Scottish historian and singer Alexander Gordon.

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