Author: SHERIDAN, Ch.-F.
Title: Histoire de la derniere révolution de Suède, contenant Le récit de ce qui s'est passé dans les trois dernières Dietes, & un précis de l'histoire de Suède, dan s lequel on développe les véritables causes de cet événement, précédée d'une Introduction sur le sort de la Liberté civile & politique en Europe. Traduit de l'anglois (par J.-M.Bruyset)
Description: Londres 1783. in-8. [4], iv, 447 pp. Demi-maroquin (coiffe supérieure endommagée) ¶ Charles-Francis Sheridan (1750-1806), brother of Richard Brinsley, was an Irish politician and member of parliament. "In May 1772 he was appointed secretary to the British envoy in Sweden, remaining there about three years. He wrote ‘A History of the late Revolution in Sweden’ (London, 1778), in which he gave a narrative of his experience as an eye-witness. The book attracted some attention, and a French translation of it appeared in 1783 in London" ((DNB.52) (Brunet 27687). According to Weller (p.220) printed in Lyon by J.-M.Bruyset.

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