LENGLET DU FRESNOY (Nicolas). Manuscript Historical... Lot 25

[LENGLET DU FRESNOY (Nicolas). Manuscript [Historical Discourses]. [About 1730]. In-4, 675 pp. numbered 673 with a biffeuillet counting for 2 pp. in black ink, blond calf, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, fawn title-piece, boards decorated with a simple gilt fillet on the boards with gilt arms in the center, filleted edges, red borders; some stains on the boards, restorations to the corners, headpieces and hinges (period binding). COLLECTION OF EIGHT " HISTORICAL DISCOURS ", that the abbé Lenglet Du Fresnoy (1674-1755), one of the great historians of the first half of the XVIIIth century, published in 1739 in the Supplément (Paris, Jacques Rollin, Jean Debure) which came to enrich his famous Méthode pour étudier l'histoire (1712, several times republished until 1734). The present collection includes: " HISTOIRE DE L'ANCIENNE GRÈCE " (pp. 1-42), tenth speech of the printed version. - "HISTORY OF ARGOS" (pp. 45-91), eleventh speech. - "HISTORY OF ATHENS" (pp. 93-269), twelfth speech. - " HISTORY OF THEBES " (pp. 271-357), thirteenth speech. - "HISTORY OF LACEDEMONIA, ARCADIA AND TROIA IN PARTICULAR" (pp. 359-438), fourteenth speech. - "HISTORY OF ANCIENT ITALY" (pp. 443-530), fifteenth speech. - "ANCIENT HISTORY OF SICILY" (pp. 531-566), sixteenth speech. - "ANCIENT HISTORY OF AFFRICA, THE ISLES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA & THE PARTS OF EUROPE WHICH CONNECT TO THE OCEAN" (pp. 567-673), seventeenth discourse, grouping together Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearic Islands, Malta, Gaul, England, Ireland and the countries of the north, insofar as they were the object of Phoenician trade. TEXT WITH VARIATIONS FROM THE PRINTED VERSION: a development of the tenth speech, occupying here pages 39 to 42, for example, does not appear any more in the final version, nor all the marginal, bibliographical and other headings which appear here. In addition, there are some scattered differences in wording. Numerous erasures and corrections by another hand in brown ink. PRECIOUS EXAMPLE WITH THE ARMS OF SAMUEL BERNARD (OHR, plate no. 1042, no. 1). One of the richest financiers of his time, Samuel Bernard (1651-1739), was one of the main financial creditors of Louis XIV and Louis XV - it is thus thanks to him that the royal power could support the expenses of the War of the Spanish Succession. He was ennobled in 1700, married his children into the best nobility, and led a lavish life, receiving the great world in his salon.