SIGNED: Ancient And Modern Malta – Volumes I, II And III By Louis De Boisgelin (Full Set)

For more than three thousand 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. Facsimile edition of the 1804-1805 three-volume work issued for Melitensia Book Club, limited to three hundred and fifty copies each of which is number and signed by the publisher. Number 224. Good condition. Slight damage to the dustcovers as shown in images. Published by Midsea Books Ltd December 1988