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British & Continental Auction | June 26, 2024

Wed, Jun 26, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 190

13 Books on French History

Estimate: $300 - $500

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all bound in three quarter leather, including: Marie Antoinette by Pierre de Nolhac, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905, signed Stikeman & Co. binding, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, teg; Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Boston: Hardy, Pratt & Company, 1899, Special Versailles Aquarelle Edition, numbered 23 of 50, four volumes plus correspondence (5 volumes total); Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan, New York: Brentano's, 1917, two volumes; Filia Dolorosa: Memoirs of Marie Therese Charlotte by Mrs. Romer, London: Richard Bentley, 1852, two volumes; The Mysteries of Paris by Eugene Sue, London: Chapman and Hall, 1845, three volumes

Provenance: Private Collection, South Carolina

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Private Collection, South Carolina

light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and small losses to leather and boards, some bumped corners