D'ORLEANS, PERE.

Histoire Des Revolutions d`Angleterre. 3 vols.

Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1714.

8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities, leather on spine cracked and spine-ends chipped. Vol. 1 with previous owner's name and commentary on front free end-paper in contemporary. Title-page in vol. 1 with underlignings in red. Margin in vol. 1 and 3 with wormtract. Generally internally nice and clean. (20), 564, (2) pp. + 3 folded maps and 10 engraved plates; 408, (32) pp. + 13 engraved plates; (20), 457, (30) pp. + 6 engraved plates. (A total of 3 folded maps and 29 consecutively numbered plates depicting British royalty - complete).

First Amsterdam-edition of D’Orleans’ popular work on the History of the revolution in England under the family of Stuarts through 1690.
Pierre D'Orléans (1641-98) was a Jesuit Father who wrote extensively on the histories of revolutions in various countries.

(For the French editions see Brunet II, 822).

Order-nr.: 61132