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304934Edouard Rouveyre 1880. TEXT IN FRENCH octavo quarter leather bound marbled boards gilt lettering & raised bands to spine teg deckled page edges marbled eps xlvi 266pp 36pp catalogue to rear VG moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine & board edges light tanning to spine moderate tanning to page edges light foxing to pages throughout light to moderate cracking to gutters Edouard Rouveyre 1880 hardcover
165181Paris: Chez Barrois L'Aîné 1822. Seconde edition. 2 vols. 32mo 5 x 3¼ ins. Contemporary green crushed morocco elaborately gilt tooled spines boards board edges and returns all edges gilt near Fine. Pp. vi xx 180 4 blank & ii 221 1 catalogue 4 blank pages toned; no inscriptions. French text. Paris: Chez Barrois L'Aîné, 1822 unknown
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
6003ARMAND LOUIS DE GONTAUT THE DUKE DE LAUZUN 1747-1793. Gontaut was a French soldier who fought in the American Revolution. He helped the French army at Yorktown marching his troops from New England to Virginia. he was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.ALS. 1pg. 7 x 9. March 27 1781. Newport Rhode Island. An autograph letter signed Le Duc de Lauzun in French to an unidentified correspondent: Newport 27th March 1781 I ask your forgiveness sir for all the trouble and confusion caused you by my business affairs. I am writing in strong terms to M. Marchand and M. de Gumne. I ask that my tableware be returned to Frantz; I beg you to sell it and to dispose of the money. If you find yourself in difficulties either from paying the nine thousand francs which I drew upon you in January payable on sight within six months or from any other causes send to M. Pays to share this burden with you and assist you with the resources that can be found in the remainder of my little fortune. If by the next post which we await daily I dont learn that all has been restored to order I will send you a general proxy. I enclose here a life certificate and a recounting of the battle of 16th March. Be assured sir of my complete and sincere affection for you. The Duke de Lauzun. The combat of March 16th mentioned was the Battle of Cape Henry off the Virginia coast in which a British squadron met the French fleet; the result was a draw. Lauzun's biographer identifies M. Marchand as the duke's steward and M. Pays as the keeper of his accounts. The letter has a vertical and horizontal fold and the usual light soiling. unknown