Parival - Les Délices de la Hollande - 1655

In The Delights of Holland, Parival paints a lively, enthusiastic, and precise portrait of the United Provinces in the 17th century. He celebrates the country as a model of prosperity, religious tolerance, and technical ingenuity. Holland appears as a land conquered on the sea, animated by commerce, sciences, and freedom. Parival describes its thriving cities, original political institutions, and urban customs, offering the reader a true invitation to travel into a modern, industrious, and surprisingly cosmopolitan republic.

Jean-Nicolas de Parival (1605–1669) was a French scholar who spent a long time in the Netherlands, where he pursued a career as a teacher, historian, and keen observer of Dutch society. Curious, multilingual, and passionate about the innovations of his time, he published accessible and lively synthesis works that enjoyed widespread success. His life was marked by a circulation between cultures, and his work reflects an open, pedagogical, and modern spirit, always ready to explain 17th-century Europe to a French-speaking audience eager for discovery.



PARIVAL, Jean-Nicolas (de) - The Delights of Holland. A Panegyrical Work. With a Treatise on Government, and a Summary of the Most Memorable Events up to the Year of Grace 1650. By L. de Parival, second edition revised, corrected, and continued up to the year 1655.

Leyden, 1655. Second edition.

Complete in 1 small in-12 volume [ [8]-361-[1] pages]

Full vellum binding from the period in good condition. Smooth, unlettered spine, title inscribed in ink. Light signs of wear at the corners and headband. Interior well preserved, paper browned.

Good specimen