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Important history of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) by an eyewitness

[FRESCHOT, Casimir].
Histoire du Congres et de la Paix d'Utrecht, comme aussi de celle de Pastadt & de Bade. Contenant particularitez les plus remarquables & les plus interessantes desdites negociations, depuis leur premiere ouverture jusqu'à la conclusion de la paix generale.

With allegorical engraved frontispiece and title vignette by Jan Goeree (1670-1731), title printed in red and black.

With allegorical engraved frontispiece and title vignette by Jan Goeree (1670-1731), title printed in red and black.



Utrecht, Willem van Poolsum, 1716. 12mo. Contemporary blind tooled vellum over boards, spine with title in ink and four small gilt flowers in compartments. With allegorical engraved frontispiece and title vignette by Jan Goeree (1670-1731), title printed in red and black. (24), 503 pp.

First and only edition of this still very valuable contemporary history of the important Treaty (Peace) of Utrecht concluded in 1714-15.
The Peace of Utrecht stands for a series of treaties that concluded the War of the Spanish Succession. It put an end to French expansion and signaled the rise of the British Empire. By the treaty between England and France (Apr. 11, 1713), Louis XIV recognized the English succession as established in the house of Hanover and confirmed the renunciation of the claims to the French throne of Louis's grandson, Philip V of Spain. The French fortifications of Dunkirk were to be razed and the harbour filled up, and the Hudson Bay territory, Acadia, St. Kitts, and Newfoundland were ceded to England. By a commercial treaty England and France granted each other most-favoured-nation treatment. By a treaty with the Netherlands (Apr. 11, 1713) France agreed to surrender to Austria the Spanish Netherlands still in French hands; these were to be held in trust by the Netherlands until the conclusion of a treaty between the Netherlands and the Holy Roman emperor. A commercial treaty between France and the Netherlands was also signed. France furthermore restored Savoy and Nice to Victor Amadeus II , recognizing him as king of Savoy. France also signed a treaty with Portugal and one with Prussia confirming the kingship of the Prussian rulers. The Anglo-Spanish treaty (July 13, 1713) confirmed the clauses of the Anglo-French treaties relating to the English and French successions. Spain ceded Gibraltar and Minorca to Great Britain and ceded Sicily (exchanged in 1720 for Sardinia to Savoy. Britain and Spain signed the Asiento, an agreement giving Britain the sole right to the slave trade with Spanish America. The Treaty of Rastatt (Mar. 7, 1714) between Louis XIV and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and the Treaty of Baden (Sept. 7, 1714), which completed the settlement, restored the right bank of the Rhine to the empire and confirmed Austria in possession of the formerly Spanish Netherlands, of Naples, and of Milan. The Third Barrier Treaty (Nov. 15, 1715) regulated trade relations between the Dutch and Austrian Netherlands.

The author of our book is Casimir Freschot (ca. 1680-1720), a French refugee living in the Netherlands, who had already edited an important work on the Treaty: Actes, mémoires et autres pièces concernant la paix d'Utrecht. 6 vols. (Utrecht 1714-15). An English translation of the Histoire du Congres had already appeared in London in the previous year (1715). Our book is sometimes considered as the seventh volume of the Actes.. Furthermore Freschot has also written a Histoire abrégée de la ville et Province d'Utrecht (Utrecht 1713), and the Histoire amoureux et badine du Congrès et de la ville d'Utrecht (Utrecht 1714), with the Veritable clef par lequelle on peut avoir l'intelligfence parfaite de l'Histoire amoureux et badine du Congrès (Cologne 1714).

Fine copy with the ex-libris of the Utrecht book-collector H.J.de  Soeten on paste down.
Van der Aa VI, pp. 246-7; Biogr. univ. VIII, p. 46; Haitsma & Van der Lem, Répert. van geschiedschrijvers in Nederland, p. 171; Barbier, i.v.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Europe  History  Politics  Utrecht 

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