Descrizione

LXVI, 210 pp.; 178 pp. 12mo. Full red morocco, spines with gilt lettering, double blind fillets around sides, gilt outer and inner dentelles, edges gilt (by Dunezat). A Amsterdam, Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1753. A compilation of facts pertaining to French history and legal matters, by the great historian de Mézeray (1610-1683), author of the important "Histoire de France" (1643-51). The original manuscript of the present work bears the title "Dictionnaire de la France", which the editor takes to signify that a larger opus was planned. Present here is the second printing by Bernard (first 1732), edited with a lengthy introduction by the French historian Denis-François Camusat (1695-1732), active in Amsterdam. - Quérard, La France littéraire, VI, 105 ("La liberté avec laquelle l'auteur et l'éditeur de cet ouvrage ont parlé sur des matières délicates, l'a fait proscrire en France"); Hoefer XXXV, 301 (Mézeray) and VIII, 429 (Camusat). HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ; FRANCE ; LITERATURE: FRENCH ;