Claude de Mesmes AVAUX

First edition. 2 other parts bear a specific title page: Lettre de Monsieur Servien plenipotentiaire de France, adressées à chacunes des Probinces Unies des Païs-Bas separement, excepté celle de Hollande; Escrit ou memoire, contenant 19 articles, à Messieurs les Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies des Païs-bas.
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Smooth spine with pen title lengthwise (faded and illegible). Restoration to spine. Traces of dampstains in margins. White stains one centimeter in diameter on about ten leaves with letters sometimes faded. Work rebound with renewed endpapers.
This correspondence deals with the disputes which opposed the two ambassadors of France to Munster...

New edition, after the first published in 1752. Title pages in red and black. Posthumous edition prepared by Abbé Maillet.
Armorial copy with the coat of arms of Louis Guillaume Chuberé, gules three roses argent, honorary counselor to Parliament whose library would be the subject of a publication.
Contemporary full speckled sheep bindings. Decorated smooth spines. Havana morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels. Triple fillet frames on boards. Small crack at head of upper joint of volumes I and III. Rubbing. Fine copy.
The Count d'Avaux was French ambassador to Holland, the work recounts in detail, in a diplomatic and rather neutral manner, the relations between...