History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort.

MOTLEY, John Lothrop.

Item Number: 114060

Rotterdam: Jacs G. Robbers, 1872.

Finely bound example of John Lothrop Motley’s popular history of the United Netherlands. Octavo, bound in full red morocco with gilt tooling to the spine in seven compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling and gilt coats of arms from the Royal Military College of Canada to the front and real panel, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition.

American author and diplomat John Lothrop Motley was best known for his two popular histories: The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The United Netherlands, initially published in four volumes. To complete the latter, Motley spent five years in Dresden, Brussels, and The Hague in investigation of the archives, which resulted in 1856 in the publication of The Rise of the Dutch Republic, which became very popular. It speedily passed through many editions and was translated into Dutch, French, German, and Russian. In 1860, Motley published the first two volumes of its continuation, The United Netherlands. This work was on a much larger scale and embodied the results of a still greater amount of original research. It was brought down to the truce of 1609 by two additional volumes, published in 1867.