Interesses de Inglaterra mal Entendidos en la Guerra Presente con Espana

Jean Baptiste Dubos; Juan de Urtassum

Mexico : Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1728

[Early Mexican Imprint: Anglo-Spanish Wars; West Indian Commerce and England's colonies]  Bound in contemporary vellum, with remnants of ties.    Minor loss to rear cover edge. Woodcut arms on dedication leaf, title within elaborate typographic border.  [32], 196 pages.  Stamp of Francisco Plancarte, Archbishop of Linares-Monterrey, on end page.  

Du Bos served as a French diplomat, philosopher and polymath.  He negotiated the peace treaty between France and the Netherlands in 1701.  First Mexican edition of Dubos' 1703 work on the Anglo-Spanish war, "Les Interets de l'Angleterre mal entendus dans la guerre presente." In this work Dubos advised England to stay out of the war of Spanish succession and focus on its navy, commerce, and colonies.  Dubos was famous for prophesying that the British colonies in America would one day revolt against their master and gain their independence.  

Refs: Medina, Mexico 3030; Palau 120831; "A rare work, attributed to Jean Baptiste Dubos, regarding eighteenth-century Spanish and English commerce in the West Indies." Sabin 98172.