Lot n° 152
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[Marie-Antoinette]. LA MOTTE (Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy de - Lot 152
[Marie-Antoinette]. LA MOTTE (Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy de). Mémoire justificatif de la Comtesse de Valois de La Motte, written by herself. [Bound in the suite] : Second mémoire London, s.n., 1789. Two works in one volume in-8, 215 p., [1] f., 78 p., pl., contemporary marbled havana basane, smooth spine decorated with lyres in fleurons, red title page, marbled tr. (spine faded with étiq. in tail, 2 corners rubbed, browning in margin of first ff.).
Beautiful reunion of these two publications openly directed against Marie-Antoinette. The second one is preceded by an engraved frontispiece showing the queen in company of the cardinal of Rohan and Vergennes.
DU BARRY (Jeanne Bécu); [PIDANSAT DE MAIROBERT]. Original letters of Mme la Comtesse Du Barry, with those of the princes, lords-minister and others who wrote to her and that we could collect... London, s.n., 1779. In-8, VIII-224 p., contemporary speckled fawn calf, smooth spine decorated, havana title-piece, triple gilt fillet on covers, gilt edges, gilt edges (one corner dulled, the others a little rubbed).
First edition of this excerpt from "Anecdotes on Madame la comtesse Du Barry" by Pidansat de Mairobert.
That is to say 2 volumes.
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