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Politics - Calvin] - DODSLEY, Robert - Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, écrite en anglois, selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs, par Nathan Ben Saadi, prêtre de la même nation; et traduite en françois dans le même stile. London, Th. Cooper, 1743, [2]-144 pp. (heavy foxing) [bound with] CALVIN, Jean - Lettres de Calvin a Jaque de Bourgogne (...) & à son épouse Jolande de Brederode. Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, 1744, [4]-xxiv-191-[1 bl.-2], pp. 192-228. [and] Mr A.C. **** - Discours apologico-pathetique sur les vertus principales de l'eau de la Reine de Hongrie (...) Pragmatique Sanction. The Hague, G. de Mee, 1743, 108 pp. [and] Extrait de l'Oraison funèbre de feu Mr. le Cardinal de Fleury (...). S.l.,s.n., [1743], 16 pp., 4 works in 1 vol., 8vo, cont. leather (worn), spine (def. with some loss) with pasted on titles and former shelfmark. S.w.a.f.
1. First French trsl. by L. Ch. Fougeret de Monbron of this chronicle of the kings of England, which covers the period 1066-1603, by R. Dodsley (pseud. Nathan Ben Saddi, 1704-1764). It is tought to have a fictitious imprint address and was probably printed in Amsterdam. Ref. Conlon 43:361 (= NUC). COPAC. 2. Letters written by Calvin between 1543 and 1553 to Jacques de Bourgogne, who, denounced as a heretic for receiving a reformed preacher in his house, had to seek refuge abroad with Calvin's help. 3. Very rare only ed. of this anonymously published work on the political situation in the 1740s. The goal of this treatise is to achieve a stable peace in Europe and to guarantee the authority awarded in the Pragmatic sanction of 1713. 4. Funeral oration to Cardinal de Fleury, French cardinal who served as the chief minister of Louis XV, refusing the formal title of prime minister.