Vertot, Abbe René-Aubert de. / Mitchel, J. / [Provenance: George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery]

The History of the Revolution in Sweden – Occasion’d by the Changes of Religion, and Alteration of the Government, in that Kingdom. Written Originally in French, by the Abbot Vertot: Printed at Paris. And Done into English, by J. Mitchel, M. D.

The Sixth Edition. London, Printed for James and John Knapton, 1729. Octavo. [24], 312 pages. Hardcover / Original full calf, recently rebacked in beautiful style of the 18th century by an english master-bindery. With gilt lettering and ornament to the new spine. Original boards preserved. Excellent condition after the restoration with Exlibris / Bookplates of three previous owners: William Bartlett / Erik Haugaard / and most importantly with the anonymous armorial bookplate (″Libertas”) of George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery (died 1783) [The titlepage signed by George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery]. Wonderfully clean and on excellent paper.

George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery (died 1783), known as Hon. George Evans from 1749 to 1759, was an Irish peer. He probably built the house later enlarged as the present Laxton Hall.
He was the eldest son of George Evans, 2nd Baron Carbery and his wife Frances. He succeeded his father in the title in 1759, and inherited an estate heavily encumbered by his father’s debts, and family settlements: he complained in 1760 that of his first half-year’s rent, he had to pay £1,000 to his mother and £4,000 to his brother John and sister Frances. On 7 February 1760, he married Lady Juliana Noel (died 18 December 1760), the third daughter of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough. They had one daughter: Hon. Juliana Evans (1760 – 20 May 1807), married Edward Hartopp-Wigley, of Dalby House, Leicestershire, on 16 April 1782. After the death of Lady Juliana, Carbery married Elizabeth Horton (died 14 June 1789) on 13 December 1762. They had one son: George Evans, 4th Baron Carbery (1766–1804).
He probably commissioned W. D. Legg to design the new house at Laxton after 1778. He also held estates in County Limerick, where Jeremiah Jackson was his agent in the 1760s and 1770s.
By 1782, he was nearly blind, and rendered an invalid by gout. After having once refused Hartopp’s suit, Carbery’s daughter eloped with him, to Carbery’s surprise and indignation, although Hartopp in the end made a good marriage settlement on her. Carbery died the following year, on 26 May 1783, and was succeeded by his son George. He left the unentailed portion of his Irish estates to his daughter in the event that George died without heirs, a contingency that came to pass in 1804. (Wikipedia)

René-Aubert Vertot (25 November 1655 in Bennetot, Normandy – 15 June 1735 in Paris) was a French clergyman and historian.
He was for some time a pupil of the Jesuit Fathers seminary at Rouen, which he left at the end of two years to enter the Capuchin Order. His health was greatly impaired by his austerities there, and his family, alarmed, obtained permission for him to join the Premonstratensian Canons. Afterwards he was appointed pastor to several small parishes in Normandy. In 1690, at the suggestion of Fontenelle and the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, he wrote his Histoire de la conjuration de Portugal. The book was received with favour, and in 1695 appeared the Histoire des révolutions de Suède (History of the Swedish revolutions). In 1703 Vertot was made a member of the Académie des inscriptions. Besides contributions to the Mémoires of the Académie and other minor works, he wrote the Révolutions romains (1719) and Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem (History of the Knights Hospitallers), also known as Histoire de Malte (History of Malta). It is related, in connection with the latter, that in answer to an offer of additional data about the great siege by the Ottomans in 1565, he said, “Mon siège est fait” (″My siege is finished”), a phrase construed by some of his critics as an expression of his disregard for historical accuracy. Another interpretation of the comment is that he simply wished to get rid of an intruder who was trying to force upon him documents whose authenticity was very doubtful. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Carbery, Baron George Evans the 3rd · Catalogue No.7 – Religion · European History – Rare · George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery · Irish History – Rare · Provenance · Religion – Rare · Revolution in Sweden · Smaland · Swedish History
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 29391AB

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