1821 Rare Book Set - The HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land by Charles Mills.
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Author: Charles Mills.
Title: The HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land by Charles Mills.
Language: Text in English.
Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821. Second Edition (stated). (Complete set of 2 volumes).
Size: 8.5 "X 5.5 ".
Pages: xv-479, viii-416 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good to very good finely bound contemporary bindings of half red morocco leather, gilt decorated (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges marbled.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, some light foxing or staining mainly on the preliminary and last pages - as shown, nice bookplate of James A. Carter on the 2 front endpapers - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the nice frontispiece and the folding map (small repair with clear archival tape at the rear of the map) in volume 1 and the 4 charts at the end of volume 2.
The books: Attractive and rare complete second edition of The HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land by Charles Mills.
The History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land was a two-volume work first published in 1820 by Charles Mills. It criticized David Hume and Edward Gibbon. Mills grouped the Crusades into nine entities:
First Crusade and Crusade of 1101
Second Crusade
Third Crusade
Crusade of 1197
Fourth Crusade
Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade
Baron's Crusade
Seventh Crusade
Eighth Crusade and Lord Edward's Crusade.
Mills' work was not as dominant in his country as was that of Joseph François Michaud and Friedrich Wilken in theirs. Mills’ history also used the theme of the role of Richard I (the Lionheart) as a crusading and royal English parallel to Louis IX. His successors opened the discussion in England of the Crusades as precursors of modern colonization, with a strong tinge of British Christian Zionism.
The author: Charles Mills (1788–1826) was an English historian. His works include History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land, History of Mohammedanism and History of Chivalry.