Gustave de BEAUMONT
L'Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse
Librairie de Charles Gosselin|Paris 1839|13 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition with a false statement of third edition.
Twentieth-century binding, skillful pastiche of a contemporary binding in half green calf. Spine with raised bands decorated with 3 blind-tooled fleurons, with roulettes on the bands, at tail and head. Black calf title and volume labels. Covers and spine preserved. Very fresh paper. Some soiling on the cover of the second volume.
Very handsome copy, in superb condition.
Important monograph on Ireland in 1830, from social, economic and religious perspectives. Gustave de Beaumont stayed for 2 years in Ireland in the company of his friend Alexis de Tocqueville, whose ideas and spirit he shared. He was then shocked and astounded by Ireland's state of misery. Analyzing the history of Ireland, Beaumont presents the ills from which Ireland suffers under the yoke of a foreign, oppressive and unjust aristocracy; Beaumont thus advances the teachings of liberalism, to which he joins great moral significance and profound meaning of justice. This work received glowing reviews and was considered as "the most serious study, the most nourished with facts and the most solidly sustained in thought, that has appeared in France, on Ireland, in the 19th century." It was received by contemporaries as a work analogous to that which M. de Tocqueville executed with such success for the United States of America.
Twentieth-century binding, skillful pastiche of a contemporary binding in half green calf. Spine with raised bands decorated with 3 blind-tooled fleurons, with roulettes on the bands, at tail and head. Black calf title and volume labels. Covers and spine preserved. Very fresh paper. Some soiling on the cover of the second volume.
Very handsome copy, in superb condition.
Important monograph on Ireland in 1830, from social, economic and religious perspectives. Gustave de Beaumont stayed for 2 years in Ireland in the company of his friend Alexis de Tocqueville, whose ideas and spirit he shared. He was then shocked and astounded by Ireland's state of misery. Analyzing the history of Ireland, Beaumont presents the ills from which Ireland suffers under the yoke of a foreign, oppressive and unjust aristocracy; Beaumont thus advances the teachings of liberalism, to which he joins great moral significance and profound meaning of justice. This work received glowing reviews and was considered as "the most serious study, the most nourished with facts and the most solidly sustained in thought, that has appeared in France, on Ireland, in the 19th century." It was received by contemporaries as a work analogous to that which M. de Tocqueville executed with such success for the United States of America.
€500