Histoire des Chevaliers de l'Ordre de S. Jean de Hierusalem contenant leur admirable institution & police, la suitte des Guerres de la Terre Saincte... THREE VOLUMES IN ONE

Folio. Title page is engraved by C. de Pas, [16], 510 pp., [22], 1 table / 251 pp., / [22], 196 pp., +28 pp., engraved title, numerous pagination mistakes, two divisional titles engraved by Joannes Blanchin, folding maps and views, mostly engraved by Henri Raignauld but also by Jean Picart, of Margat in Syria, Acre, Cyprus, Valletta and Malta, smaller plans of Jerusalem, Acre, Rhodes,Valletta, 60 engraved portraits, of which 3 are repeated, and a template for a family tree set within the text, full calf binding of the period, light wear to edges, gilt decorated spine with very small old restoration, pages in general lightly browned with rare and scattered foxing, lower corner of pages 151-152 of the first part torn without any loss to text, light dampness marks on the upper part of almost 60 pages, very small treated worm thread on around 20 pages, marginal small tears to pages 27-28 of the 3rd part without any loss to text, speckled edges, very good condition in general of this very rare Italian work translated and introduced by Jean Baudoin, Bookplate of "Clau. Ant. Mouis. Mouis de Champagne" verso front cover, small old stamp of "C. F. Buchin" on lower margin of first title page and old ink inscription of "Laligant-Morelot ", Chez Thomas Joly, Paris, 1658-1659. 
ADDED 4 autographed letters of the XVII & XVIII century, one of which was written in Malta by the Maréchal de Montaignac; also added a 19th century portrait of the Chevalier de La Valette.

History, Travel,Order of St John of Jerusalem, Hospitalier Knights, Crusades, Jerusalem Templars, Holy Land, Bosio Giacomo,