Dissertation sur les Whigs et les Torys

First edition, cf Conlon 17:710. Quérard VII, 455 ("Cette Dissertation est très-estimée").

Full marbled blond calf, spine with five raised bands richly gilt in compartments decorated with gilt bees, red morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillet on board edges, mottled edges, contemporary binding.

Lower corner rubbed, endpapers partially browned.

Notable treatise on the two great English political parties, their history, development, and respective positions.

The author, the French Protestant historian Paul de Rapin, sieur de Thoyras (1661-1725), went into exile in England and Holland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

He is also the author of a monumental History of England, in which he later incorporated the present dissertation.

Fine copy bearing on the spine the armorial supralibros of Louis-Paul Abeille (1719-1807), economist, Inspector General of Manufactures of France, and Secretary General of the Conseil du Bureau de Commerce. He was successively the close adviser of Trudaine, Turgot, Lamoignon, Malesherbes, and Calonne, but his principal merit lay in the role he played at the Société royale d’agriculture.