Memoires de la cour de France, pour les années 1688 & 1689
Chez Jean-Edmé Dufour et Philippe Roux|à Maestricht [Maastricht] 1779|11 x 19 cm|relié
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Second edition, after the posthumous first edition of 1731. Nineteenth-century full blonde calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, roulettes and fleurons, as well as black fillets, brown morocco title label, gilt date at foot, double gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, fine gilt dentelle framing the pastedowns, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges. Binding signed Muller successeur de Thouvenin. One corner very slightly bumped and joints skillfully restored. Handsome copy of these Memoirs of which we know, even today, only fragments.