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Four rare political tracts
BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY).Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs.   London (i.e. Amsterdam), Th. Cooper, 1743. 8vo. Contemporary full caf with pasted titles and former shelfmark on spine. Title in red & black with engraved vignette, head- and endpieces. 144 pp. With: (2) CALVIN, Jean, Lettes de Calvin a Jaque de Bourgogne seigneur de Falais & de Bredam, & à son epouse Jolande de Brederode. Imprimées sur les originaux. Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, 1744. Title in red & black with engraved vignette, folding genealogical table. (4), XXIV, pp. 1-191 (1 blank, 2), pp. 192-228. (3) DISCOURS apologico-pathetique sur les vertus principales de l'eau de la Reine de Hongrie, ou sur les moïens de faire triompher le bonne foi, & par celle-ci rétablir & affermir en Europe, la paix stable & durable, qu'on lui a annoncé & garanti de la part des puisances qui ont accedé à la Pragmatique Sanction. Avec quelques remarques sur la prétenduë refutation des recrits circulaires de la cour de Vienne. Par Monsieur A.C. ****. The Hague, Gerard de Mee, 1743. 108 pp. (4) Extrait de l'oraison funèbre de feu Mr. le Cardinal de Fleury, tel qu'on l'a reçu de Strasbourg avec les remarques tirées de l'entrétien de deux officiers François à leur retour de la Bohème, chargés de misere & de maladie. (No place & printer, 1743). Ad 1: First issue of the first French edition of this chronicle of the kings of England, which covers the period 1066-1603. A second issue of this edition with a different title vignette was printed in the same year in Hannover. Both imprints are thought to have a fictituious address; Amsterdam is suggested as printing place for both issues. The Chronicle was first published in English in 1740 and it was reprinted in Robert Dodsley's Trifles (London, 1745) and thought to be his work. Robert Dodsley (1703-64) was a poet, dramatist and bookseller. Other sources ascribe it to Lord Chesterfield. 'Dodsley could not have written a work showing so much wit and literary force'(DNB ). This French translation is attributed to Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron. Ad 2: Letters from Calvin addressed to Jacques the Bourgogne and Yolande de Brederode written between 1543 nd 1553. They offer a case study in the interaction of politics and personalities that shaped the European reform movement in general and the position of Calvin in connection with the worldly powers of Europe in particular. Jacques de Bourgogne, who encountered evangelical ideas in Louvain, married into one of Holland's most prominent protestant families, was denounced as a heretic for receiving a reformed preacher at his chateau in Brabant, sought refuge in Cologne, Strasbourg and Basel, and finally settled, with Calvin's help, in a village near Geneva. De Bourgogne's odyssey is exemplare for the upheavals experienced by a generation that heeded the reformer's call, preferring exile to renouncing their new faith under pressure in their native lands. Ad 3: Very rare first and only edition of this anonymously published work on the actual political situation at the courts of Europe in the '40s of the eighteenth century. The goal of this treatise is to achieve a stable peace in Europe and to guarantee the authority awarded in the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. This was a legal mechanism designed to ensure that the Austrian throne and Habsburg lands would be inherited by Emperor Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa. It was part of the law of the house of Austria. Hungary which had an elective kingship, had accepted the house of Habsburg as hereditary kings in the male line without election in 1687, but had not accepted semi-Salic inheritance. The Emperor-King agreed that if the Habsburg male line became extinct, Hungary would once again have an elective monarchy. This was rule in the Kingdom of Bohemia too. Maria Theresa, however, still gained the throne of Hungary. Charles VI spent the time of his reign preparing Europe for a female ruler, but he did not prepare his daughter, Maria Theresa. He would not read her documents, take her to meetings, not be introduced to ministers or have any preparation for the power she would receive in 1740. Charles VI did not prepare Maria because that meant giving up hope of having a son to succeed him. Charles VI managed to get the great European powers to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction (for the time being), and died in 1740 with no male heirs. However, France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony reneged, and contested the claims of his daughter Maria Theresa on his Austrian lands, and initiated the War of the Austrian Succession , in which Austria lost Silesiato Prussia. The elective office of Holy Roman Emperor was filled by Joseph I's son-in-law Charles Albert of Bavaria, marking the first time in several hundred years that the position was not held by a Habsburg. As Charles VII, he lost Bavaria to the Austrian army and then died. His son, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria , supported Austria's claims in exchange for the return of Bavaria, and Maria Theresa's husband was elected Holy Roman Emperor as Francis I in 1745. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, finally recognized Maria Theresa's Habsburg inheritance. The 'L'eau de la Reine de Hongrie' is a satirical reference to the legendary rejuvenating medieval rosemary lotion called "Eau de la Reine de Hongrie", which was allegedly first prepared for Elisabeth, Queen of Hungary; it was used alone and in a variety of medicinal preparations since the thirteenth century. Ad 4: Extremely rare extract of the funeral oration for André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus (1653 - 29 January 1743) and the French cardinal who served as the chief minister of Louis XV. The additional remarks are substracted from a conversation between two French officers on their comeback from the Bohemian campaign. Fleury found the nation poorly prepared when in 1733 war was forced upon France. He was compelled by court opinion to support the claims of Louis XV's father-in-law Stanislaus Leszczynski to the Polish crown on the death of August II, against the Russian and Austrian candidate; but the despatch of a French expedition to Gdansk turned into a humiliation. Fleury was pressed by his advisor Germain Louis Chauvelin to more energetic measures; he concluded a close alliance with the Spanish Bourbons and sent armies against the Austrians twice. Military successes on the Rhine and in Italy secured the favourable terms of the treaty of Vienna (1735 - 1738). France had joined with the other powers in guaranteeing the succession of Maria Theresa under the Pragmatic Sanction, but on the death of Charles VI in 1740. Fleury by a diplomatic quibble found an excuse for repudiating his engagements, when he found the party of war supreme in the king's counsels. After the disasters of the Bohemian campaign at the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession he wrote in confidence a humble letter to the Habsburg general, Königsegg, who immediately published it. Fleury disavowed his own letter, and died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a few days after the French evacuation of Prague on January 20, 1743. In good condition.- (Library bookplate pasted on inside of front cover; binding used).
Ad 1: Lowndes II. p. 657; Halkett & Laing I, 346 (first English ed); Querard II, p. 1231 (Second French ed. of 1750); DNB XV pp. 170-4. Ad 2: Cynthia J. Cupples, Jean Calvin, Lettres à Monsieur et Madam de Falais. In: Sixteenth Century Journal XXV/1 (1994), pp. 186-7. Ad 3: Knuttel 17370; not in Barbier.
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