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Mémoires relatifs a la famille Royale de France, pendant la révolution; d'anecdotes inconnues et authentiques sur les princes contemporaines et autres personnage célèbres de cette époque. Publiés pour la premiére fois d'aprés le journal, les lettres et les entretiens de Princesse de Lamballe, par une Dame de Qualité attachée au service confindentiell de cette infortunée princesse.
by Lamballe, Princess de
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About This Item
Paris: Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, rue de Bourbon, No.17, 1826. 1st Edition . Full leather. Good. First edition, volume 2 only (of 2), octavo; 416pp. In contemporary full cats-paw calf (lightly worn, spine rubbed with loss at foot, front hinge weak and held by cords), single gilt fillet to board margins, raised spine bands, gilt lettered green leather volume number label present but title label missing, remains of removed old ownership label to front pastedown, sporadic light spotting otherwise a clean copy, with engraved frontispiece of Marie Antoinette's secret cipher. A good odd volume example of this uncommon early account.
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- Lyppard Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000717
- Title
- Mémoires relatifs a la famille Royale de France, pendant la révolution; d'anecdotes inconnues et authentiques sur les princes contemporaines et autres personnage célèbres de cette époque. Publiés pour la premiére fois d'aprés le journal, les lettres et les entretiens de Princesse de Lamballe, par une Dame de Qualité attachée au service confindentiell de cette infortunée princesse.
- Author
- Lamballe, Princess de
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, rue de Bourbon, No.17
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1826
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- french revolution revolutionary history royal family royalist marie antoinette
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian books; Antiquarian History;
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About Lyppard Books
Lyppard Books was established in Worcester, UK, in 2012, adopting the unusual name from Lyppard Grange, once a farm attached to the monastery of Worcester's ancient cathedral. We maintain a small and select stock of English and Continental antiquarian titles from the dawn of western printing to the 19th century, and aim to offer original, early examples of scarce and sought-after texts.
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