VANDENHOECK IMPRINT

Vertot, le Abbé de: Histoire des Revolutions de Portugal. A Londres [London], chez Abraham Vandenhoeck, libraire françois a la tête de Virgile 1730.

First French edition in England of this popular history of Portugal, from the eighth century to 1668, via the 1640 rebellion against the Spanish. It includes studies of Portuguese expeditions into north Africa, and the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza.

An early and uncommon publication of Abraham Vandenhoeck (1700-1750), whose first imprint was London, 1728. Of Dutch extraction, he had an English wife. He later (1732) set up a press in Hamburg, and (1734) became printer to George II's new university at Göttingen. This last business survives as the Göttingen publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. To continue the international theme, Vandenhoeck adds at end of text, an advertisement for a French history of recent Portugal, translated from the English, from an Amsterdam publisher.

Details

12mo., pp. [8] 187 [17]. Woodcut vignette to title-page and at end, woodcut headpieces. A good copy in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges mottled red; binding slightly rubbed with cracking to joints. Armorial bookplate of William Fraser of Fraserfield.

ESTC T 81943.