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ARTCURIAL - Toulouse Jean Louis Vedovato - Me Jean-Louis Vedovato
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[FIRST EMPIRE]. GENLIS (Félicité de).
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[FIRST EMPIRE]. GENLIS (Félicité de).
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[FIRST EMPIRE]. GENLIS (Félicité de). UNPUBLISHED MEMOIRS OF MADAME THE COUNTESS OF GENLIS, on the eighteenth century and the French Revolution, from 1756 to the present day. Paris, Ladvocat, 1825. 10 volumes in 8½ format, in petrol-blue calfskin, spine ribbed and decorated with gold and blind-stamped, title in gold, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Scattered foxing. FIRST EDITION of these renowned memoirs. Napoleon admired Madame de Genlis as a woman of letters; he granted her a pension and employed her as a spy. A BEAUTIFUL COPY, preserved in a lovely, fresh Restoration binding with a decorative spine. ¶ Tulard, 611 – Fierro, 454.
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