MAINTENON (Marquise de) - LA BEAUMELLE (L). THE FIRST OF THE - Lot 141

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MAINTENON (Marquise de) - LA BEAUMELLE (L). THE FIRST OF THE - Lot 141
MAINTENON (Marquise de) - LA BEAUMELLE (L). THE FIRST OF THESE IS THE ONE THAT WAS USED IN THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK. (6 vols.) LETTERS TO VARIOUS PEOPLE (9 vols.). Amsterdam, Pierre Erialed (Avignon, Deleyre) 1757. 15 volumes in-12, numerous pagination errors without missing, light-coloured basane, spine ribbed and decorated, red tr. (binding of the time). Counterfeit published one year after the original of the apocryphal letters and memoirs established by La Beaumelle according to the important materials provided by the Ladies of Saint-Cyr. The latter was immediately locked up in the Bastille because it brought to light the intrigues of the Court of Louis XVI. The engraved portrait of Madame de Maintenon is placed in the first volume of the memoirs. Several pieces of tomography missing or worn, small galls on some plates, minimal interior defects.
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