DANIEL, Pe. Gabriel, S.J.- Abrégé de l’histoire de France depuis l’etablissement de la Monarchie Françoise dans les gaules.- A Paris: Chez Denys Mariette, Jacques Rollin [et. al,], 1727.- 6 vols.: il.; 29 cm.- E. Father Gabriel Daniel (1649-1728), Jesuit and French historian, born in Rouen, with a vast active bibliography on religious and philosophical themes (anti-Jansenism), achieved his greatest literary success with the publication of a “Histoire de France” (Paris , 1713), whose 1755-60 edition would later be expanded to 17 volumes, represented here in its “abrégée” version in six. The first volume is illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and a fold-out map of the Gallic States. Copy with slight browning, but in general clean and preserving good margins. Contemporary bindings, full sheepskin, a little worn and with traces of wormholes on the spines, featuring, at the centre of all covers, gold engraved, the book stamps with the coat of arms of Michel Robert Le Pelletier des Forts (1675 -1740), Count of Fargeau, French statesman and politician, Intendant of Finance and Councilor of State to Louis XIV and Minister of State to Louis XV. Especially damaged are the spines of volumes IV and VI. All volumes retain the original marbled paper endpapers. Brunet, II, col. 487 (l’abrégé a été longtemps préféré à la “Grande Histoire”). Sommervogel, II, 1812, 32.