Histoire des revolutions d'Espagne

First edition. Folding map of Spain at the beginning of volume I.
Contemporary brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated with compartmented fan-shaped tools. Title labels. Brown morocco volume labels decorated. Headcaps of volumes 1 and 2 split. A lack at the tail of volume 2. Lack along the upper joint at the head of volume 1. Some lacks to the upper board of volume 2 from worming. The boards have suffered alteration from the acid used to create the marbling. In volume 1, slight dampstain to upper margin on some preliminary leaves and the map as well as to upper margin on the last index leaves; in volume 3, to inner margin on the first 4 leaves, and pp. 497 to 500 to upper margin. Paper relatively fresh despite this.
Manuscript ownership inscription Amédée Bergier on title pages and some endpapers.
This detailed history of Spain begins with the end of the Gothic domination and the invasion of the Moors in 711 and continues until the death of Ferdinand V in 1516 and the union of Spain into a single monarchy by the reunion of Castile and the kingdom of Aragon. The author did not complete the nine books projected and the last two are from the hands of Pierre Joseph Arthuys and Pierre Brumoy. Following a model proven by historians of the period, the history follows a chronological course. The works of Joseph d'Orléans on revolutions are classics of ancient history.