Pierre-Louis HANET-CLERY

First edition illustrated with 2 portraits of the Cléry brothers as frontispiece, lithographed by Morin. Complete title: Mémoires de P. L. Hanet Cléry, ancien valet de chambre de Madame Royale, aujourd'hui Dauphine, et frère de Cléry, dernier valet de chambre de Louis XVI; Munitionnaire général des armées, agent général des hôpitaux militaires à Saint-Domingue, conservateur des forêts dans l'ile de Corse, etc., Chevalier de la Légion-d'Honneur.
Contemporary half brown binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Gilt titles and volume numbers. Minor crack to upper joint at head of volume 1 extending a few mm. Traces of rubbing, notably to corners. Leather used for volume 2 lighter than

Second edition on laid paper of these Memoirs of the valet de chambre to Madame Royale, published in 1825 under a slightly different title.
Contemporary half wine-red calf bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, date at foot.
Some minimal rubbing to the uniformly faded spines, otherwise very fine copies.