Les Vrayes causes des derniers troubles d'Angleterre, abbregé d'histoire, où les droicts du Roy et ceux du Parlement et du peuple sont naïfvement représentez (par G. Bate. Traduit par Sorbière).
1653
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Les Vrayes causes des derniers troubles d'Angleterre, abbregé d'histoire, où les droicts du Roy et ceux du Parlement et du peuple sont naïfvement représentez (par G. Bate. Traduit par Sorbière).
Created/published
Orange : E. Raban, 1653.
Description
XL-285 p. ; In-12
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Place of creation/publication
France.
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Call number
FAST ACC 271106 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "A scarce French translation of this important Royalist narrative by the physician George Bate (1608-1668), recording the political upheavals in England in the 1640s during the English Civil War. Bate’s credentials as a cunning political survivor are underlined by the fact that he served as physician to both Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. Written for a continental European readership, this work was first issued in Latin under the pseudonym Theodorus Veridicus as Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia (Paris, 1649). An English translation followed, titled A compendious narrative of the late troubles in England. Or, Elenchus Englished ... ([London?] 1652). A continuation of Bate’s work, providing his account of the 1650s, appeared in 1661. The present translation, made by the French physician and philosopher Samuel Sorbiere (1615-1670) during his time as principal of the college of Orange in southeastern France, includes a lengthy thirty-three page dedication (to “le comte Frederic burgrave de Dona”) and was printed in Orange by Edward Raban, apparently not Edward Raban (d.1658) printer in Aberdeen, but another Scottish printer of the same name (perhaps a son) recorded as working in France at Nimes, Orange and Grenoble." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9206, 2018-05-18, 2018 Summer List, item 17. Purchase made possible by The Roger T. and Peggy M. Simonds Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
271106