“
. . . I have been lately reading Komarzewski’s Coup d’oeil on the history of Poland. tho’ without any charms of stile or composition,
it gives a lesson, which all our countrymen should study; the example of a country erased from the map of the world by the
dissensions of it’s own citizens. the papers of every day read them the counter lesson of the impossibility of subduing a
people acting with an undivided will . . .
”
Jan Chrzciciel [Jean Baptiste] Komarzewski, 1748-1810, Polish general under King Stanislas-Auguste, and author of several books.
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119
Revolñs de Hongrie.
6. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 52, Revolutions de Hongrie, 6 v 12mo.
[BRENNER,
Domokos Antal Ignácz.]
Histoire des Revolutions de Hongrie, où l’on donne une idée juste de son Legitime Gouvernement. Tome Premier [-Sixieme] . . . A
la Haye: chez
Jean Neaulme,
1739.
DB932.3 .B76
6 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 227 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of François Rakoczy by Folkema, 1739, folded engraved map; vol. II, 178 leaves; vol. III, 198 leaves; vol. IV, 184 leaves, the last a blank; vol. V, 207
leaves; vol. VI, 238 leaves; engraved device on each title, the titles, printed in red and black, vary in each volume according
to the contents; in the copy collated there was no half-title in vol. I, present in the other volumes.
Barbier II, 114.
Quérard I, page 501.
Domokos Antal Ignácz Brenner, Hungarian abbé and historian. Little seems to be known of him, and the bibliographies are for the most part ignorant of
his given names, referring to him only as
abbé. The first edition of this book was published earlier in the same year in two volumes quarto.
Prosper Marchand, 1675-1756, French scholar, the editor of the work, states in the Avertissement that
L’Auteur, qui n’a pas jugé à propos de se nommer, est sans doute Hongrois de naissance . . .
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120
Loccenii rerum Suecicarum historia.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 53, as above, but with reading p 8vo.
LOCCENIUS,
Johannes.
Johannis Loccenii Rerum Svecicarum Historia a Rege Berone tertio usque ad Ericum decimum quartum deducta, & pluribus locis, quam antehac, auctior
edita. Accedunt Antiquitates Sveo-Gothicae.
Holmiae: ex officina
Johannis Janssonii,
1654.
DL646 .L8
First Edition. 306 leaves, separate title for the
Antiquitatium Sveo-Gothicarvm . . . Libri Tres. Editio Seconda emendatior & auctior; printer’s woodcut device on both titles.
This edition not in Graesse.
Ebert II, 12160.
Johannes Loccenius, 1598-1677, a German by birth, became professor of German at Upsala University and historiographer of Sweden. According to
Graesse the first edition of the
Antiquitatum Sveo-Gothicarum was published in Upsala in the same year, 1654.
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121
Voltaire’s history of Charles XII. of Sweden.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 15, unnumbered: [Voltaire’s history of Charles XII, of Sweden, 12mo, in his works ch. 44]
VOLTAIRE,
François Marie Arouet de.
The History of Charles XII. King of Sweden. By M. de Voltaire. Translated from the
French. The
Seventh Edition. With a complete index
,
London: Printed for
C. Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row.
MDCCXL. [1740]
