1680 Rare French Book - History of Holland and other United Provinces

 

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Author : Louis Aubery du Maurier
Title : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Hollande et des autres Provinces Unies. Ou l'on verra les veritables causes des divisions qui sont depuis soixante ans dans cette Republique, & qui la menacent de ruine.
Language : Text in French
Publisher : À Paris, Chez Jean Villette, 1680. Second Edition.
Size : 5.5 " X 3.5 "
Pages :  363 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good full vellum binding (hinges fine,  overall slightly scuffed and worn) under a protective mylar cover .
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean. rare staining and foxing, one ink stamp on title page - as shown).

Estimate : (USD 200 - USD 900)

The book : Rare 17th century French memoir of Aubery du Maurier on History of Holland in the form of biographies of important personalities of the United Provinces (Guillaume de Nassau, Louise Colligny, Maurice de Nassau, Hugo Grotius ...). By "November 6, 1680 the book was banned by the Court of Justice of Holland (...)"

The author : Louis Aubery du Maurier was a French historian, born July 24, 1609 and died in 1687 in La Fontaine-Saint-Martin.
He accompanied his father Benjamin Aubery du Maurier in the embassies and was in favor of Anne of Austria.