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187438543Agen: Imprimerie de Prosper Noubel 1874. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this monograph on a castle in Southwest France. 124 pp frontispiece etching on fine laid paper folding map of the chateau. Printed on good wove paper. 4to. Original wraps. Wraps worn splitting at spine. Internally clean. Very scarce. <br/><br/> Imprimerie de Prosper Noubel paperback
1880258608Paris: Édouard Rouveyre 1880. One of 15 copies on China paper number 30 of a total edition of 100. Frontispiece etching in four states two vignette etchings in three states after de Malval. xlvi 2 266 pp. printed entirely on CHINA PAPER. 8vo. Rebound in vellum yapp edges original printed paper wrappers bound in at back. Near fine. One of 15 copies on China paper number 30 of a total edition of 100. Frontispiece etching in four states two vignette etchings in three states after de Malval. xlvi 2 266 pp. printed entirely on CHINA PAPER. 8vo. Some of the large uncut sheets show traces of Chinese woodblock printing in red and blue ink - perhaps a mark of the paper's origin. Édouard Rouveyre unknown
182290685Paris: Barrois l'aîné 1822. Fine. Barrois l'aîné Paris 1822 12.7 x 20.8 cm Relié First edition of these important memoirs covering the years 1747 to 1783 cf. Sabin 39271.Contemporary full mottled calf smooth spine gilt with fillets roulettes and floral tools some rubbing with small losses of leather at the foot of the upper board marbled endpapers gilt fillets to the edges marbled edges; period binding.Upper cap and corners restored.The duc de Lauzun 17471793 accompanied the comte de Rochambeau during the French expedition to America; he recounts this campaign in his Mémoires pp. 339375.The editorial history of this publication deserves notice: the original manuscript having not been recovered the textissued some twelve times to the present daywas established from copies circulating under the Empire; its authenticity was nevertheless confirmed by Talleyrand.In the first edition published in 1822 the present copy several passages suggesting a liaison between Marie-Antoinette and Lauzun were removed or altered.These passages reappeared in 1833 in a parallel printing juxtaposing the expurgated passages with a manuscript version presented as original. It was not until 1858 that the first unexpurgated edition was issued with a biographical notice by Louis Lacour. Barrois l'aîné hardcover