Author: Burigny, Jean Lévesque de.
Title: Vie de Grotius, avec l'histoire de ses ouvrages, et des négociations auxquelles il fut employé.
Description: Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey,1754. 2 Parts in one volume. Contemp. calf binding. xii,287; iv,296 pp. 8vo. Boards bit rubbed & corners bumped. Very good copy. Two title-pages printed in red & black with vignette. Bookplate. Bit worn on edges. Very good copy. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Jean Lévesque de Burigny (1692-1785), French historian, devoted his time to historical research and published several works which stamped him as a conscientious scholar. Burigny, although sharing the ideas of the philosophers of his time, was by no means an extremist. He was a modest, peace-loving man, whose only ambition was to be a scholar, and his works show a great amount of learning; some, for instance his lives of Grotius and Erasmus, give very interesting data not elsewhere found.

Keywords: RECHT, Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645)