Memoirs du Cardinal de Retz, de Guy Joli, et de la Duchesse de Nemours [etc.]. 6 Volumes
by Retz, Jean Francois Paul de Gondi de, 1613-1679; Eugenio de Castro
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About This Item
Paris Etienne Ledoux, 1820, hardcover. UNIQUE COPY. Text in FRENCH. Nouvelle edition, augmentee. Six volumes complete. -- Includes frontispiece portrait, facsimile letter, plus name index in v.6. -- Hardcover, full leather with elaborate spine decoration, all edges marbled. Condition: very good minus (covers are worn at corners and scuffed, some more than others; page are bright and white, couple wrinkled). -- Retz lived in the political and ecclesiastical turmoil of 17th century France, and recorded his experience in these memoirs, including the court of Louis XIV and the Fronde civil war. Includes a long poem during Retz' stint in prison. -- UNIQUE COPY: This set has the bookplates of "Eug. de Castro" and 3 volumes have his SIGNATURE, presumably Eugenio de Castro (1869-1944), the famous Portuguese symbolist poet (streets and schools are named after him).
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- Bucks County Bookshop IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25400
- Title
- Memoirs du Cardinal de Retz, de Guy Joli, et de la Duchesse de Nemours [etc.]. 6 Volumes
- Author
- Retz, Jean Francois Paul de Gondi de, 1613-1679; Eugenio de Castro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Etienne Ledoux
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1820
- Keywords
- NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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