Religieux bénédictin de la Congrégation de Saint-Maur - L'ART DE VÉRIFIER LES DATES - 1783-1787

The Art of verifying the dates of historical facts, charters, chronicles, and other ancient monuments from the birth of Our Lord through a chronological table, which includes the Olympiads, the years A.D., the Julian Era or that of Julius Caesar, the Eras of Alexandria and Constantinople, the Seleucid Era, the Caesarean Era of Antioch, the Era of Spain, the Era of Martyrs, the Hijri, the Indictions, the Pascal Cycle, the Solar and Lunar Cycles, the Pascal Term, Easter, the Epacts, and the Chronology of Eclipses. It also features two perpetual calendars, a Glossary of Dates, a Saints' catalog, the Jewish Calendar, the historical chronology of the New Testament, those of the Councils, the Popes, the four Patriarchs of the East, the Roman and Greek Emperors, the Kings of the Huns, Vandals, Goths, Lombards, Bulgarians, Jerusalem, Cyprus, the Princes of Antioch, the Counts of Tripoli, the Kings of Parthia, Persia, Armenia, the Caliphs, the Sultans of Iconium, Aleppo, Damascus, the Ottoman Emperors, the Shahs of Persia, the Grand Masters of Malta, the Temple, and all the Sovereigns of Europe, the Emperors of China, the Grand Feudatories of France, Germany, Italy, the Republics of Venice, Genoa, the United Provinces, etc.
Third edition.
By a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur.
In Paris, at Alexandre Jombert Jeune's, 1783.
Complete set of three large folio volumes 23 x 37 cm (15 kg), in full marbled blond calfskin, with smooth spines decorated with cold roll tooling. Titles and volume numbers gilt on red and green morocco labels. Gilt tools, fillets, and fleurons in the compartments. Gilded garlands at the head and tail. Triple fillet framing the covers. Gilt fillets on the edges, garland on the boards. Marbled edges, bookmarks. Large fold-out genealogical chart (62 x 32 excluding margins) in volume II.
Number of pages: Volume I. xxiv-[1]-xli-850p.; Volume II. viii-[table]-924p.; Volume III. Iv-864-[Supplement and Table xc.]p.
Weight: 18000 g.
Condition: Bindings with some missing parts but properly restored, gilded decoration, title and volume pieces toned, text pages in very good condition, rare foxing, without significant tears.
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