Gabriel-Henri Gaillard - Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l'Espagne - 1801

GAILLARD (Gabriel-Henri)

History of the rivalry between France and Spain, containing the history of the rivalry: 1° of the houses of France and Aragon, 2° of the houses of France and Austria.

Paris, at Lavillette, 1801.

8 volumes in-12 (16.5 x 9 cm), calfskin (binding of the period), smooth spine ornately tooled, title pieces in morocco, gilt filet on the edges, [4]-416-[1] ; [4]-365-[2] ; [4]-427-[2] ; [4]-419-[2] ; [4]-434-[1] ; [4]-416-[1] ; [4]-386-[1] ; [4]-423-[1] pages (complete). Corners worn, splits at the headcaps of volume I. Good overall condition.

Original edition by the historian Gabriel-Henri Gaillard. This monumental historical work examines European geopolitical tensions in depth through two large dynastic axes.

The rivalry with the House of Aragon: concerns primarily the clashes at the end of the Middle Ages and the early Italian Wars (conflicts around the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily).

The rivalry with the House of Austria: analyzes the long face-off between the kings of France (Valois then Bourbons) and the Habsburgs (wars against Charles V, the Thirty Years’ War, up to the accession of the Bourbons to the throne of Spain).

Pleasant copy.