The history of the revolutions in Sweden and Portugal, to which is added An enquiry, whether the kingdom of France, from the establishment of that monarchy, has been an hereditary or elective state / written originally in French by the Abbot Vertot ; and now done into English from the last French edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vertot, abbé de, 1655-1735.

Contributor:

Vertot, abbé de, 1655-1735.

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Histoire des révolutions de Suède. English. 1727

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Reformation--Sweden.

Reformation.

Sweden--History--Gustav I Vasa, 1523-1560.

Sweden.

History.

Sweden--Politics and government--1523-1564.

Politics and government.

Portugal--History--Revolution, 1640.

Portugal.

France--History--To 987.

France.

France--Politics and government--To 987.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Ireland -- Dublin -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (both RBC copies) (DL651 V52 1727)

Lambert, Oliver Richard (bookplate) (RBC copy 1) (DL651 V52 1727)

White, William Wilson (autograph, 1863) (RBC copy 1) (DL651 V52 1727)

Inver, Jane (autograph) (RBC copy 2) (DL651 V52 1727)

Physical Description:

3 parts in 1 volume (30 unnumbered pages, 312, vi, v pages, 1 unnumbered page, 126 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 38 pages) ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed by and for George Grierson, at the Two Bibles in Essex-Street, MDCCXXVII. [1727]

Notes:

Separate pagination, register and t.p.: The history of the revolution in Sweden, occasion'd by the change of religion and alteration of the government in that kingdom / written originally in French by the Abbot Vertot ... ; and now done into English by J. Mitchell ... The sixth edition. Dublin : printed by and for George Grierson ..., 1727.

Separate pagination, register and t.p.: The revolutions of Portugal / written in French by the Abbot de Vertot ... ; done into English from the last French edition. Dublin : printed by and for George Grierson ... and for George Ewing ..., 1724.

Separate pagination, register and half-title for: "An enquiry whether the kingdom of France, from the establishment of that monarchy, has been an hereditary or elective state / by the Abbot de Vertot. July 27, 1717." Signatures (text): Y-Z82A4(-A4), with half-title as a single pasted in leaf.

'The history of the revolution in Sweden' is another issue of the Dublin 1727 edition.

Histoire de la conjuration du Portugal (1689) appeared in later editions as Histoire des révolutions de Portugal or Révolutions de Portugal.

Dissertation dans laquelle on examine si le royaume de France, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie, a été un état héréditaire ou un état électif, first published in Mémoires of the Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France), tome IV.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

RBC copy 2 (DL651 V52 1727): Added t.p. for 'Sweden' wanting. 'Enquiry' bound before 'Portugal'. Both RBC copies have [2] p. of advertisements at end of book.

Cited in:

ESTC T81952

Related Work:

Vertot, abbé de, 1655-1735. Histoire de la conjuration du Portugal. English. 1724.

Vertot, abbé de, 1655-1735. Dissertation dans laquelle on examine, si le royaume de France, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie, a été un état héréditaire ou un état électif. English.

OCLC:

13615272