CONTI (Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine de)


Histoire des amours d’Henry le Grand, Roy de France et de Navarre. Escrite par Madame L. Marguerite de Loraine Princesse de Conty.

[1679 circa]

In-8 (220 x 150 mm), (74) pages, brown calf, double gilt fillet, numeral GG surrounded by fermès, ornate spine, marbled edges; two spines split, two corners dull, last endpaper missing, first leaves stained (Binding of the period).

Charming 17th-century manuscript copy bound in an amateur's cipher.

The first edition of Les amours d'Henry IV appeared in 1651 under the title Alcandre ou les Amours du Roy Henry le Grand.

This manuscript bears the bookplate of a certain Benoist de La Pierre, dated 1679.

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