LADVOCAT, Jean Baptiste. Dizionario storico, portatile, che contiene la storia de’ Patriarchi, de’ Principi Ebrei, degli’Imperadori, de’ Re, e de’ grandi Capitani; degli Dei, degli Eroi dell’antichità pagana, ec. de’ Papi… E generalmente di tutti gli uomini illustri nelle Arti, e nelle ScienzeBassano, Remondini, 1773

7 Tomes small 4to; Contemporary binding in boards; pp. XVI, 282; 279; 263; 276; 216; 210; 171; text on two columns.

Beautiful Remondiniana edition of this encyclopedia that contains more historical and biographical the most ancient times until the eighteenth century.Fine specimen.

Professor and librarian at the Sorbonne, was also a talented Semitic, author of a Hebrew grammar,. His many studies, mirroring the vastness' of his interests and his doctrine, ranging from Judaism to classical literature, from history to philosophy to mathematics.