46
Welwood’s memoirs.
12
mo.
1603.-1689.
1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 6, as above.
WELLWOOD,
James.
Memoirs of the most material transactions in England, for the last hundred years, preceding the Revolution of 1688. By James Welwood M.D.
London,
1718.
12mo. 179 leaves. No copy was seen for collation.
Lowndes IV, page 2872.
This edition not in Grose.
James Wellwood, 1652-1727, English physician. The
Memoirs, which contain a statement of the Whig case, were first published in 1700 and frequently reprinted, in authorized and pirated
editions. This edition of 1718 contains a short introduction giving an account of how the memoirs came to be written.
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Histoire d’Angleterre de Rapin.
10. v.
4
to.
59 A.C.-1689.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 67, as above.
RAPIN THOYRAS,
Paul de.
Histoire d’Angleterre, par Mr. De Rapin Thoyras. Tome Premier [-Dixieme] . . .
Seconde Edition.
A
La Haye: chez
Alexandre de Rogissart,
1727.
DA30 .R19
10 vol. 4to. vol. I, 294 leaves; vol. II, 268 leaves; vol. III, 256 leaves; vol. IV, 282 leaves; vol. V, 238 leaves; vol.
VI, 250 leaves; vol. VII, 226 leaves; vol. VIII, 370 leaves; vol. IX, 294 leaves; vol. X, 374 leaves; engraved frontispiece
in the first volume by F.M. La Cave, and portrait of the author by Jacobus Houbraken after Brandon, engraved portraits of Kings of England by La Cave in vol. I, II, and III, engraved maps and head and tail pieces. The work of Rapin ends with volume VIII and includes the history of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Charles I. The
list of illustrations is in this volume. Volumes IX and X are the continuation by Durand and take the history to the accession of William III and Mary. These two volumes have no illustrations and the words
Seconde Edition are omitted from the title. The title of each volume varies according to the period of history covered.
Jefferson considered this the best history of England. In his description of Jefferson’s library during his visit to Monticello
in 1815, Francis Calley Gray wrote in his Journal:
. . . Rapin was here in French, though very rare in that language. Mr. Jefferson said that after all it was still the best
history of England, for Hume’s tory principles are to him insupportable . . .
Ten years later (October 25, 1825) in a letter to George Washington Lewis concerning the books for the history course at the
University of Virginia, Jefferson wrote that “
of England there is as yet no general history so faithful as Rapin’s.”
Paul de Rapin, sieur de Thoyras, 1661-1725, French historian. The first edition of his history of England was published in 1724 in eight
volumes.
David Durand, 1680-1763, French Protestant theologian.
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Hume’s history of England.
8. v.
8
vo.
Cadell.
1790.
Lond. 59 A.C.-1688.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 36, Hume’s history of England, 59 A.C.-1688, 8 v 8vo.
HUME,
David.
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. In
eight volumes, illustrated with Plates. By David Hume, Esq. A new Edition, with the Author’s last Corrections and Improvements. To which is prefixed, a short Account of his Life,
written by Himself. Vol.
I [-VIII].
London: Printed for
T. Cadell, and sold by
T. Longman,
1790-91.
