135. 1677389. FIRST EDITION OF COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN'S MEMOIRS 1696.
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135. 1677389. FIRST EDITION OF COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN'S MEMOIRS 1696.
Description
Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Roger, lieutenant general des armées du Roy, et mestre de camp general de la cavalerie legere. Les memoires de Messire Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy. I-II. Chez Jean Anisson, Paris, 1696. First edition. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 4:oi in a contemporary leather binding with gilt spine text and rich gilt spine decoration, blind embossed binding frames and red cuts. Marbled front pages. With an engraved full-page portrait as frontispiece and two engraved vignettes, one in each part. Front. , (IV), 563 p. , (I) + (II), 513 p., (XXXI).
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, born April 18, 1618 and died April 9, 1693, was a French soldier and writer. Bussy-Rabutin became a member of the French Academy in 1665, and published Historie amoureuse de Gaules, Mémoires, Lettres, Nouvelles lettres, as well as a Histoire abrégée de Louis le grand. Source Wikipedia.
Provenance: the Wrangel von Brehmer family with ex-libris, stamp and signature.
Condition
Mixed stained and with some abrasions, but well held together. The first two leaves with water stains. Otherwise mostly a fresh entry.
135. 1677389. FIRST EDITION OF COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN'S MEMOIRS 1696.
Description
Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Roger, lieutenant general des armées du Roy, et mestre de camp general de la cavalerie legere. Les memoires de Messire Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy. I-II. Chez Jean Anisson, Paris, 1696. First edition. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 4:oi in a contemporary leather binding with gilt spine text and rich gilt spine decoration, blind embossed binding frames and red cuts. Marbled front pages. With an engraved full-page portrait as frontispiece and two engraved vignettes, one in each part. Front. , (IV), 563 p. , (I) + (II), 513 p., (XXXI).
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, born April 18, 1618 and died April 9, 1693, was a French soldier and writer. Bussy-Rabutin became a member of the French Academy in 1665, and published Historie amoureuse de Gaules, Mémoires, Lettres, Nouvelles lettres, as well as a Histoire abrégée de Louis le grand. Source Wikipedia.
Provenance: the Wrangel von Brehmer family with ex-libris, stamp and signature.
Condition
Mixed stained and with some abrasions, but well held together. The first two leaves with water stains. Otherwise mostly a fresh entry.
