Rapin de Thoyras, Paul (1661-1725)

Histoire d'Angleterre [10 Vols. Complete]

      Chez Alexandre de Rogissart, MDCCXXIV—MDCCXXVII 1724-1727, A La Haye - A magnificient set, complete in 10 volumes, of Rapin de Thoyras's magisterial history of England from the period of the Roman invasion to the death of Charles I. in the orginal bindings and featuring tk superbly engfraved porttaitrs, maps and geneaolicaL tables, many folding. 4to; [8], xxxvi, [4: list of subscribers], 526, [2]pp, with a portrait of Rapin de Thoyras, map of Roman Britain, portrait of Ecbert le Grand, Saxon chronological table, portraits of Alfred the Great and Canut the Great, and 7 genealogy tables; 10 volumes complete, with a vignette depicting Clio and Time, with the original inhabitants in the background scene. (The medallions depict: 1. Claudius, 2. Honorius granting rights to the cities of Britain, 3. Saxon Heptarchs, 4. Canute, 5. Edward the Confessor, 6. William the Conqueror) repeated on each title page, designed and engraved by F.M. La Cave, as were the alleggorical head- and tailpiecs [ck]. The TK number plates contain 8 portraits of Kings & persons of note, 15 Genealogy tables of the nobility of England & Scotland plus 5 folding maps. (The three contemporary maps of Great Britain and Ireland in vols. II, III and IV are all the same map after Claude de L'Isle, 1644-1720). Quarto. with illustrations and allegorical endpieces and with a dedicatory epistle to King George I. frontis to volume1. Includes a dissertation on the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc; Map of Britannia Romana; Map of Britannica Saxonica; Royal Genealogies; A New Map of England, Scotland and Ireland; A New and Correct Map of France; "A Dissertation on the Rise, Progress, Views, Strength, Interests, and Characters of the two Parties of the Whigs and Torys" First Published in the Year 1717; Chronological Summary and Index. Frontispiece to Volume I of original French Edition of de Rapin's Histoire d'Angleterre of 1724, designed and engraved by F.M. la Cave. All maps and tables are in fine condition, all pages crisp, clean and bright. Vol. I: 525pp; frontispiece, titlepage, Vol. II: 538pp, titlepage, genealogy table of William the Conquer, portrait of William the Conquer, folding map of Great Britain and Ireland after. Vol. III: 506pp, title page, 2 genealogy tables, of the Scottish line from Malcolm II and from Edward II; portraits of Edward III, Edward Prince of France, and Henry V; and folding map of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. IV: 557pp, title page, genealogy table of Edward III and James I, folding map of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. V: 496pp, title page, genealogy tables of Edward III and James I. Vol. VI: 471pp, title page, genealogy tables of Edward III and James I. Vol. VII: 496pp, title page, genealogy tables of Edward III and James I. Vol. VIII: 724pp, titlepage, genealogy table of James I. Vol. IX: 584pp, titlepage. Vol. X: 743pp, title page. OCLC Number: 49984513. According to Brunet, 3 further v. were published. With half titles. Printer's device, engraved, on t.ps. Includes index. 10 v. : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. (some folded) ; 4 Although written in French, Rapin de Thoyras's great history was produced for the endorsement of the British monarchy, with a dedicatory epistle to King George I. The original version was almost the only history of England available in France in the first half of the eighteenth century. A Protestant, Paul Rapin (sieur of Thoyras, and therefore styled Thoyras de Rapin), enlisted in the Dutch army and came to England with William of Orange in 1688, and during the Williamite war in Ireland took part in the Battle of the Boyne, and was wounded at the Siege of Limerick, in 1690. In 1693, he settled first in the Hague and then at Wesel, where, in 1707, he began his great multi-volume work, L'Histoire d'Angleterre. (Ref: M&B; Tooley) Volume I contained, in five books, an account of Britain from the time of the Ancient British to the Norman Conquest, and made an unsually thorough attempt to draw upon the various principal sources. Volume II (Books VI-VIII) covered from William the Conqueror [Attributes: First Edition]