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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. La Vie du général Monk duc d Albermarle, &c. Le restaurateur de Sa Majesté britannique Charles II. Traduite de l anglois de Thomas Gumble, docteur en théologie, et autrefois un des chapelains du général. A Rouen, chez Jean Lucas, ruë aux Juifs, près la grand porte du Palais, 1672. FIRST EDITION! 326 pages, full leather binding measuring 6 x 4", 12mo. In fair condition. Full leather boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head of spine lacking (including headband); tail rubbed, but intact. Edges of text-block speckled red; top edge moderately soiled. Front hinge cracked at head of spine. Light off-setting found on front end-page (verso) from text on title page. Light toning throughout text-block; mostly at edges of leaves. Binding remains tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608 1670) was an English soldier, who fought on both sides during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A prominent military figure under the Commonwealth, his support was crucial to the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, who rewarded him with the title Duke of Albemarle and other senior positions. Due to a combination of illness and lack of interest in politics, Monck faded into the background after 1660, but he returned to sea during the Second Anglo-Dutch War and played an important leadership role during the 1665 Great Plague of London, as well as the Great Fire of London in 1666. He lived in retirement for the last three years of his life and died in January 1670. Thomas Gumble, D.D. (died 1676) was an English clergyman and biographer. Gumble, for some time vicar of Chipping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire was appointed chaplain to George Monck, then in Scotland, at the end of 1655. Monck, finding him an excellent man of business, entrusted him with many commissions. On 4 January 1660 he was despatched from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to London with Monck's letters to the parliament and city. On his arrival (12 January) parliament ordered £100 to be given him, and recommended him (26 January) for the first vacant fellowship at Eton College. RAREF1672EJOA - 11/20 COLH1672JEMH - 11/24 - HKREV275.