[Rarebooks] fa: DANILE DEFOE[?] - SECRET HISTORY OF THE GEERTRUYDENBERGH NEGOTIATION 1712

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Secret History of the Geertruydenbergh Negotiation. With several Original Papers. To which are prefix’d Two Letters. I. To the Rt Hnble Robert Harley Esq; concerning the Management of the Present Ministry. II. To the Rt Honble the Lord Privy Seal, relating to the Present Treaty of Peace now on Foot. Done out of French. London: Printed in the Year MDCCXII [1712]. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo pamphlet bound in modern burgundy french wraps; [2] + 94 pp.

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe. Very scarce: not found in COPAC or ESTC, though both catalogues locate several (but not many) copies of the second edition published by Edmund Curll. Mild toning and spotting to the first and last leaf and the top edge of the text block, otherwise very clean and crisp, firmly bound in sharp modern wraps.

"In the waning years of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), Louis XIV tried to detach the United Provinces from the Grand Alliance in a series of secret talks that culminated in negotiations at Geertruidenberg [in the present day Netherlands] in the spring of 1710… Agreement was very close, but never actually reached. The war continued until the Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1713, but the Geertruidenberg negotiations had laid the groundwork necessary to that formal peace" (Cathal J. Nolan: Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715, 2008).