SAINT-SIMON (Louis DE ROUVROY de) duke - Lot 730

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SAINT-SIMON (Louis DE ROUVROY de) duke - Lot 730
SAINT-SIMON (Louis DE ROUVROY de) duke Mémoires de Monsieur le Duc de Saint-Simon, ou l'observateur véridique, sur le règne de Louis XIV, & sur les premières époques des règnes suivans. Paris, Buisson ; Marseille, Jean Mossy, 1788. 3 volumes in-8 : 396pp / 1f. 332pp / 1f. 379pp. Printed on blue paper. Contemporary shagreened basane, ornate smooth spines, blond title-pieces, green tomaisons, small lack of leather at the head of volume 2, epidermal marks and small lack of leather on boards, gilt roulette on the edges, yellow edges. Edition published the same year, but more complete, than the original in-12 which contains only separate fragments. This is the first substantial edition of these famous memoirs, the complete edition of which will not appear until 1829-1831. Without the supplement printed in 1789 (Brunet V, 60).
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