United Kingdom - MENTET DE SALMONET (R.) & RIORDAN DE MU - Lot 249

United Kingdom - MENTET DE SALMONET (R.) & RIORDAN DE MUSCRY (D.). Histoire des troubles de la Grand'Bretagne, contenant ce qui s'est passé depuis l'an mille six cent trente trois, iusques à l'année mille six cent quarante six. Following: Relation des veritables causes et des conionctures favorables, qui ont contribué au restablissement du Roy de la Grand'Bretagne. Paris, Courbé, 1661. 3 parts bound in 1 volume in-folio, granite calf, ornate ribbed spine, gilt roulette on the edges. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Mignard, engraved by Lochon, 3 vignettes on the titles, a handsome copper-engraved entablature and a copper-engraved lettering, as well as numerous wood-engraved entablatures, letterings and culs-de-lampe. Posthumous edition, enlarged with an unpublished second part published by Jacques Saint Clair de Roselin from the author's manuscript, and a 3rd part entitled "Relation des véritables causes et des conjonctures favorables qui ont contribué au restablissement du roy de la Grand' Bretagne" by Riordan de Muscry. Secretary to Cardinal de Retz, the Scotsman Mentet de Salmonet was commissioned at the beginning of the Fronde to write and print a recent history of the revolutions in England, in order to chart a course of action in the coming Parisian troubles. His chronicle covers the period 1633-1646 in Great Britain, during the reign of Charles I and the civil war between the Royalists and the Puritans led by Olivier Cromwell. A very fine copy. Expert : Madame Elvire POULAIN-MARQUIS