L'Observateur hollandois, ou premiere (-quarante-sixieme) lettre de M. Van ** a M. H** de La Haye, sur l'etat present des affaires de l'Europe.

[MOREAU, Jacob Nicolas (1717-1804)]

Verlag: A Liege, chez Jean Francois [as from nr 12: A La Haye] [1 September] 1755

Beschreibung

- [12 February] 1759. 46 nrs bound in 6 volumes. Small 8vo. Contemp. blond calf, richly gilt, unfortunately heavily rubbed and with some missing pieces of leather. Upper margin of volume 5 (nr 26-34) cut short, sometimes touching the page number, title of nrs 12 and 39 stained, nrs 39, 40 and 41 with worm tracks affecting several letters of most pages, last page of last nr with a small burn hole. A complete set of this journal (though without the second part of nr 23 found in some sets), unfortunately with the defects as mentioned above. These letters concern the events in the beginning of the Seven Years' War and particularly the conflict between France and Great Britain in the American colonies. They were published irrregularly with the intention of exciting the public opinion in Europe against Britain. The author was a French royalist, librarian of Marie-Antoinette and historiographer of France. He had access to many official documents and in the present volumes makes amply use of these.Bound at end of volume 2: L'Observateur observe, ou lettre d'un Hollandois a un de ses amis, dans laquelle on redresse L'Observateur hollandois' sur ce qu'il a avance touchant le commencement des hostilites presentes entre les Francais & les Anglois. A La Haye 1756. [II],109p. The first 12 nrs here a counterfeit edition with imprint Liege instead of the usual La Haye. Several of the later nrs have a catalogue of the Amsterdam bookseller Marc Michel Rey at the end. Armorial bindings of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), first Scottish-born Prime Minister of Great Britain and noted bibliophile.*Hatin p.61. Not in Muller or Sabin. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 31735

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Titel: L'Observateur hollandois, ou premiere (-...

Verlag: A Liege, chez Jean Francois [as from nr 12: A La Haye] [1 September] 1755

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good