Price: £1,500
Subject: History
Published Date: c. 1806]
Stock Number: 59246
(Your basket is currently empty)depuis l'avènement de Rudolphe de Hapsbourg à l'Empire jusques y compris le Traités de Presbourg et d'Austerlitz.
Description: manuscript in ink on paper in a single small, neat hand, presumably the author's, a few corrections to the text, folded slips of paper with MS additions attached to 2 leaves, minor creasing, pp. 21, [3, blank], 4to self wrappers, sometime folded, preserved in a green buckram folding case, red lettering piece on upper coverPublication Details: [Paris: c. 1806]
Notes: Read at a session of l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1806, the text was not published until 1822; this is possibly the author's own MS. An overview of the Hapsburg Empire, in terms of statistics (population, revenues, &c). Mentelle is hard on his own profession ('cette science sévère'), but holds it up as the necessary basis for history and geography.
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