BOISGELIN de KERDU – ANCIENT AND MODERN MALTA – 1804 – SOLD

Description

BOISGELIN de KERDU, Piere Marie Louis de – 1804 – euro 1500

Title: ANCIENT AND MODERN / MALTA: – 2 volume

A very important book in the history of Malta. A very good condition book with extensive engravings and illustrations. Missing in this edition is the Malta big map, hence price is euro 1500.00

Place: London, 1804

For more than 3000 years various world powers prided themselves in conquering Malta or counting it among their possessions. Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs and Spanish all had come and gone leaving in some way or other their mark on Malta’s culture and civilization. None however, left it so indelibly as the Knights of St John. For 268 years they made the Island their home embellishing it with palaces, churches and auberges and fortifying it with the strongest walls military history had ever experienced.