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[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
See original version (French)
212
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[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
See original version (French)
Estimate
€60 - €80
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Description
[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
(MOUHY, Charles de)
The Man in the Iron Mask, or the marvellous adventures of father and son.
The Hague. Published by Pierre de Hondt, 1772.
12° format. Half-bound in speckled sheepskin. Ribbed spine. A small tear in the lower part of the spine.
3 volumes bound together as a single volume. XI, 132 pp., 120 pp., 114 pages.
The first edition of this work was published in 1747.
This novel was one of Mouhy’s greatest successes. This *Masque de fer* does not recount the eponymous story set under Louis XIV, but rather the story of Don Pèdre, Viceroy of Catalonia, and his secret wife, the sister of the King of Castile; the king bursts into the chamber and confines the faces of the couple beneath an iron mask. In the preface, the author lists no fewer than four stories of iron masks in Turkey, England… similar to the one that occurred in France under Louis XIV.
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ID: 89135463
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