Mar 20, 2003 - Sale 1964

Sale 1964 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE MEMOIRS (DIAMOND NECKLACE AFFAIR.) Countess de Valois de la Motte. Memoirs . . . Containing a Complete Justification of her Conduct . . . and Concluding with an Address to the King of France Supplicating a Re-Investigation of that Apparently Mysterious Business. viii, 259, [230, 231], 48 pages. 8vo, contemporary marbled calf gilt, rubbed; front endpaper (loss to upper outer corner) through title-page loose, scattered light soiling near end, owner's inked signature on title. Pages 260 and 261 misnumbered as 230 and 231. London: 1789

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first english translation