Histoire d'Angleterre, contenant la maison de Plantagenet ; contenant la maison de Tudor ; contenant la maison de Stuart

New edition, and undoubtedly the first quarto to bring together the three histories published between 1760 and 1765. Translation by Mme Belot, approved by the author himself.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Blue morocco title label and brown morocco volume label. Surface wear to headcaps of all six volumes. Some lacks to boards due to worming and to the last raised band of volume I. Edge of lower board half stripped over one cm. Nevertheless a good copy, very fresh.
This History of England is unquestionably the most popular work, and which had great success, of philosopher David Hume, father of philosophical empiricism and whose importance in the history of philosophy equals that of Descartes in France. History could indeed only interest the philosopher since it is an unequalled sum of experience; as such, it is essential to anyone seeking knowledge; the historian is an empiricist, since being unable simply to perceive the causal links between facts and events, he is constrained in his vision to conceive them in movement. However for Hume, it is by no means a matter of conceptualizing history and his work classically follows the chronology of facts; it is a substantial and detailed history of England, which extends from the arrival of the Romans to the Revolution of 1688; it is divided into three historical and dynastic periods: the house of Plantagenet, that of Stuart, and that of Tudor.