MONTRESOR
Memoires de Monsieur de Montresor
Chez Jean Sambix|Cologne 1663|7.50 x 12.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First complete edition of these memoirs, which had appeared in expurgated form the previous year. The second volume, extremely rare and almost never found together with the first volume of the memoirs, appeared in 1665. Volume I bears no volume indication on the title page, volume II does; the publisher indeed deemed it appropriate after the fact to provide a sequel to the Memoirs by gathering various pieces.
Contemporary full brown sheep bindings. Spine with raised bands decorated in the 19th century (pastiche) in shagreen.
The Count of Montresor, Claude Bourdeille, was a seasoned conspirator, and we see him conspiring in all periods, against Richelieu, against Gaston D'Orléans, during the Fronde... He interested himself in all sorts of secrets and his memoirs, as well as the pieces contained therein, are rich testimony to this, from 1632 to the early years of the Fronde. The second volume is composed of various pieces, speeches by Montresor himself, letters and replies...
Contemporary full brown sheep bindings. Spine with raised bands decorated in the 19th century (pastiche) in shagreen.
The Count of Montresor, Claude Bourdeille, was a seasoned conspirator, and we see him conspiring in all periods, against Richelieu, against Gaston D'Orléans, during the Fronde... He interested himself in all sorts of secrets and his memoirs, as well as the pieces contained therein, are rich testimony to this, from 1632 to the early years of the Fronde. The second volume is composed of various pieces, speeches by Montresor himself, letters and replies...
€700