He befriended Voltaire, who published the first edition of his "Siècle de Louis XIV" under Du Fresne's name. The archaeologist, poet and historian Du Fresne (1704-81) spent some time at the Prussian court of Frederick II and was a member of the Berlin Academy. The volume ends with a chronological index of facts and titles and alphabetical indexes of subjects, of geographical names (with numerous references to Asia and America), and an index of persons. 159-602) is taken up by sources: official documents, extracts from private memoirs, etc. The highly interesting third volume, with the half title "Histoire de la Compagnie des Indes avec les titres de ses concessions & privileges", deals exclusively with the French East India Company. The first volume includes an introductory history of duties imposed by earlier regulations since 1304. The author treats, alphabetically, hundreds of taxed goods, including books, clothing, drugs, gold, ivory, jewels, lace, matches, paintings, printing types, silver, wine, and weaponry. The first two volumes give a detailed account of the tariff of 1664 for exports (vol. The present three volumes are all that was published of a projected 40-volume complete history of French finances, compiled so as to resolve practical difficulties with the tariff. The third volume constitutes a history of the Compagnie des Indes, including a great number of facts and figures difficult to find elsewhere. A principal source for the financial history of France the chief work of the author. Contemporary full calf with labels to richly gilt spines. All title-pages printed in red and black. Some browning as common, otherwise a very good, untrimmed, wide-margined copy as issued. His present small work, though not the work of an orientalist nor indeed a scholar, is still a true grammar based on elements collected during the author's journeys. An account of his travels was included in the collection of Thevenot. He especially tried to convert to the Catholic faith the so-called sectarians of Saint John (in eastern Mendaï). He "belonged to the Order of Discalced Carmelites, and preached the Gospel in Turkey, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Persia, where he stayed over a long period. Ignazio di Gesù (Carlo Leonelli) was a 17th century Italian missionary. The grammars of Greaves and of the present author were both "largely based on De Dieu" (Smitskamp). Raimondi, as early as 1614, produced a grammar in Rome for the use of missionaries which remained virtually unknown in the west, but this existed only in manuscript. The third work of this kind, preceded only by those of Louis de Dieu (Leiden 1639) and of Greaves (London 1649). Extremely rare first edition of this valuable Persian grammar printed in Rome on the presses of the "Propaganda Fide". Some light foxing and browning as common, slight abrasion on title (vignette very slightly affected), lacks final blank leaf. Modern contemporary-style ivory vellum, handwritten title on spine.
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