HÉNAULT. Nouvel abrégé chronologique de l'histoire... Lot 30

HÉNAULT. Nouvel abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de France en deux parties... Paris, Prault - Desaint & Saillant, 1749, 2 parts in 2 vol. in-12, red morocco, gilded lace around the covers with bird's iron at the corners, ornate ribbed spines, inner gilded roulette, green tabis lining and endpapers, gilded edges (period binding). Collation : T. I : 1 f. de faux-titre, 1 f. de titre, 10 pp. ch. [iii] - Xij, 1 f. approbation, 430 pp. ch. 1 to [430], 1 f. blc / T. II: 321 pp. ch. [433]-753, 79 pp. n. ch. "Table of contents", 1 f. errata. Third revised, corrected and enlarged edition. 3 unsigned headpieces. "The only man who taught the French their history." (Voltaire on Hénault) Hénault (1685-1770) went down in history with his Abrégé chronologique de France. The work covers the period from Clovis to Louis XIV. Published anonymously for the first time in 1744, it was to see many revised and corrected editions. It was often imitated. A luxuriously bound copy of the period. The bindings have been restored, corners, spines and headbands. One corner dented. Size : 168 x 109 mm. Provenance: 18th-century DH Menvilliers manuscript bookplate.