GUSTAF III'S EXAMPLES OF DIALOGUES DES MORTS 1760 IN WHICH CARL XII CONVERSES WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND QUEEN CHRISTINA WITH AXEL OXENSTIERNA.

Lyttleton, George, Baron, (1709-1773). (Anonymously published). Dialogues des morts. Traduit de l'Anglois par Monsieur le professore de Joncourt. Chez Pierre de Hondt, A La Haye, 1760. 8vo in a contemporary brown marbled leather binding with gilt spine text on red label and rich gilt spine decoration. Red cuts With King Gustaf III's gilt bookplate bookplate, so probably from his library. First French edition of this widely distributed and popular book in the 18th century. (XII), 339 p.
Here it is the dead who are conversing. Swedish interest has Queen Christina's ¨as well as Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna and Carl XII's conversation with Alexander the Great, where Carl XII suggests that they both form an alliance against Alexander Pope because he insulted them in his satires. Other conversations are between Ulysses and Circe, Plato and Fenelon, and Addison and Jonathan Swift.
Provenances. Gustaf III, Bibl. Hammer, the book collector Per Erik Lindahl and Leif Gothildius, Knislinge, (1939-2018.