OGER-BLANCHET
201
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SAINT-GABRIEL, De - Le Mérite des Dames.
See original version (French)
201
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SAINT-GABRIEL, De - Le Mérite des Dames.
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
SAINT-GABRIEL, De - Le Mérite des Dames. III. edition. Avec l'entrée de la Reyne & de cent autres Dames du Temps, dans le Ciel des belles Héroïnes. Paris, Jacques Le Gras, 1660, pet. in-8, (7) ff, 316 pp, (2) ff (errata and privilege), supplement pag. 317-354, some places faded from washing, red morocco, spine ribbed, int. dent, gilt tr. (CHAMBOLLE-DURU).
GAY III, 201. The author was Avocat général à la Cour des Aides de Normandie. Dedicated to Queen Marie-Thérese in the year of her marriage to King Louis XIV. Partly original edition including (pp. 317-354) a supplement of one hundred other Dames du Temps including the Queen, to be added to the previous one hundred in the second edition. These include the Queen, the Grande Mademoiselle, the Princesses de Condé and de Conti, the Duchesses de Longueville, de Châtillon and de Chevreuse, Mme de La Fayette, Mme de Montbazon, Mme de Montauzier, the Countess d'Olonne, the Princess Palatine, Mme de Sévigné, and others.
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