Title: Histoire de la ville Et de l’Estat de Geneve. Depuis les premiers Siecles de la fondation de la Ville jusqu’à present
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).
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