History Celts 1770 I Histoire des Celtes, A Paris, Imprimerie de Quillau

Pelloutier, Simon and De Chiniac, M.

History Celts 1770 I Histoire des Celtes, A Paris, Imprimerie de Quillau, tome 1-8, 1770-1771. Complete series of 8 volumes.

Name: History Celts 1770 I Histoire des Celtes, A Paris, Imprimerie de Quillau, tome 1-8, 1770-1771. Complete series of 8 volumes.
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Full leather bindings with goldprint on the spine and flower decorations. Bindings used so with some wear. Text in French. Some minor foxing on the pages but further in very good condition.

Full title: Histoire des Celtes et particulierement des Gaulois et des Germains, depuis les Tems Fabuleux, jusqu’à la Prise de Rome par les Gaulois. Author: Simon Pelloutier, pasteur de l’eglise Francoise de Berlin, membre & bibliotécaire de l’Academie des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Prusse. Nouvelle edition, Revue , Corrigée et augmentée. Dédiée a Monseigneur Le Dauphin par M. de Chiniac, Avocat au Parlement.

The original edition was published in 1740 and 1750 but had many mistakes and was not entirely printed. This new edition, first 4 volumes 1770, thereafter 1771 is seriously corrected and enlarged. Simon Pelloutier was a pastor of the church in Bucholz near Berlin and then in Magdeburg and finally in Berlin. He was a historian and antiquarian and elected to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. He won the prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1742.

A detailed 18th century history on the Celts (Kelten) arriving at the shores of Britain at approximately 1,000BC and living there during the Iron Age, the Roman Age and the post Roman era. Their legacy continues today where examples of the language, culture and traditions continue to exist.

From the library of the famous Belgium historian, see ex libris, Adolphe Borgnet (1804-1875). He was a historian and university professor in Belgium, Liège (Luik, België). He obtained a doctorate in law from the State University of Louvain (1826) and worked as an examining magistrate at the Court of First Instance in Namur (1830-1837), while devoting his leisure time to historical studies. This passion led him to opt for a teaching career at the University of Liège, where he was rector from 1848 to 1853. He is buried in the Robermont Cemetery in Liège.

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