6 volumes. (12mo) 14.5x9 cm (6x3½"), period gilt decorated calf, gilt spines with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
6 volumes collecting issues 1-46 (all published?) of Moreau's influential periodical The Dutch Observer, spanning the years 1755-1759. Scarce.
Jacob-Nicolas Moreau was a French historian, historiographer of France, and great defender of the Ancien Regime. As a historian, he wrote a large number of memoirs and essays and created a "deposit of charters" to collect the official texts of national history. His doctrine influenced the kings of the Restoration.
