99. MOORE (George). The History of the British... Lot 99

99. MOORE (George). The History of the British Revolution of 1688-9. London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Fort in-8, viii-579-(1 blank) pp. with 8 pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at head, smooth spine boards with printed title label, worn binding with spine missing and upper spine cracked, spine title missing, some foxing (period binding). FIRST EDITION. The English civil war of 1648-1649 saw the execution of Charles I, then, after the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell and his son (1649-1660), the general George Monk allowed the Restoration of the Stuarts. King James II, however, succeeding Charles II, was ousted from the throne by a second revolution in 1688-1689 in favour of his daughter Mary and Prince William of Orange, and ended his days in exile in France. THE EXAMPLE OF NAPOLEON I AT SAINT HELENE (stamped by the Longwood library). SOMETIMES COMPARED TO OLIVER CROMWELL WHO TAKEN OVER THE RULES AT THE END OF A REVOLUTION, NAPOLEON I ALWAYS TRIED TO EMPHASIZE THE DIFFERENCES between the French Revolution and then the Consulate and Empire in France (1789-1815) and the period between the two English revolutions (1648-1689). In his published Memorial (but this passage does not appear in his first manuscript), Count de Las Cases reports on 5 May 1816 that the Emperor declared: "[These two revolutions] have many similarities and differences [...] In both countries, two men, with a vigorous hand, stopped the torrent and reigned with lustre. After them, the two hereditary families are recalled, but both take a wrong direction. They make mistakes, a new storm unexpectedly breaks out in both places, and throws the two restored dynasties out of the territory." On St. Helena, Napoleon I returned to the subject at least twice: in 1817, according to Gaspard Gourgaud's diary, and again in January 1821 after reading David Hume, as General Bertrand indicates in his Cahiers de Sainte-Hélène. PROVENANCE: NAPOLEONIAN COLLECTION OF THE PRINCIER'S PALACE OF MONACO (ex-libris vignette).