Memoires de François Paul de Clermont, Marquis de Montglat, Mestre de Camp du Régiment de Navarre, Grand Maître de la Garderobe du Roi, & Chevalier de ses Ordres

First edition. A title vignette repeated on all four volumes, depicting Erasmus. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels, decorated with roulettes. One lack to headcap of volume I due to worming, same to the last compartment. Dampstaining to upper board of volume II (darkened). 3 corners bumped.
Essentially historical memoirs, the marquis de Montglat rarely puts himself on stage, carefully gathering the facts of his time, from 1635 to 1668; although the memoirs provide military details (campaigns between France and Austria), Montglat applies himself to unraveling the mechanisms of the court; the troubles of the Fronde are skillfully described and with much more impartiality than in all the memoirs of the time (Retz and associates). The preface that recommends the book is by Father Bougeant, a highly regarded Jesuit man of letters and historian, who applied himself to editing these memoirs very conscientiously.