Annales politiques.

Londres (Paris), 1758. 2 volumes. 402 pp.; 402 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, red edges. INED 981 (first edition); Higgs 1862; Einaudi 930 (first edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Second edition, first published in 1757. One of the author's lesser known works, published after the Ouvrages politiques and hence not included therein. It forms a contemporary public history of the period 1658-1739, and is full of impartial judgement and good sense. An ardent humanist and great fighter for universal peace, he published a world-peace plan, based on a proto-type of the E.E.C. In 1731 cardenal Fleury had forbidden him to publish anything on politics. Most of his works were published at his own account in Holland or under a bogus imprint. Published after the author's death by his family because of the vehement critical comments on Louis XIV. Grimm considered this work as better and more reliable than Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV. - From the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloss Eferding, with stamp on free front blank and half-title, a very nice copy.