‎DES ROCHES, JEAN-BLAISE.‎
‎Histoire de Dannemarc, avant et depuis l'établissement de la monarchie. Nouvelle Edition. 9 vols. - [BEAUTIFULLY BOUND COPY OF THE FIRST FRENCH WORK ON THE HISTORY OF DENMARK]‎

‎Paris, Rollin, 1732. 8vo. Nine parts uniformly bound in nine nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red. Light wear to extremities. All boards with scratches and with a bit of loss of leather. A few leaves with marginal worm-tracts, not affecting text. An overall nice and clean set. (4), 353, (1), CXX pp. + frontispiece and 1 folded map (8), 570 pp. (4), 462 pp. (4), 416 pp. (4), 416 pp. (4), 430 pp. (8), 464 pp. (4), 444 pp. (4), 371 pp. (4), 468 pp. ‎

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‎Second enlarged edition of the first history of Denmark in French, here extended with a ninth volume. Des Roches de Parthenay, also known as Jean Baptiste (Blaise) Desroches de Parthenay was a project manager, translator, and journalist. Born in La Rochelle, France, he passed away at Frederiksberg’s Hospital in Copenhagen,Denmark. He worked as a lawyer in his hometown before emigrating as a Huguenot to the Netherlands. He settled in The Hague, where he, along with Bruzen de la Martiniére and La Barre de Beaumarchais, engaged in literary activities. One of the outcomes was this present work which to a large extent is a compilation of older Latin narratives. What it perhaps lacks in originality it gains in historiographical importance being the first substantial work in French on Danish history.‎