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RANKE, Leopold.

The History of the Popes

their church and state and especially of their conflicts with protestantism in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Translated by E. Foster.

Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, 1847-51

Stock code: 71762

Price: £150 Currency Conversion

First edition. A handsomely bound copy.

3 volumes, octavo (173 × 108 mm). Contemporary crimson half calf, black morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Engraved frontispiece to each volume. Some occasional light foxing predominantly to frontispieces, an excellent set.

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