Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HAMILTON, ANTHONY. Mémoires du Comte de Grammont. 78 engraved plates (variously foxed, offsetting onto facing pages). 313, 77, [3] pages. 4to, 298x241 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco attractively gilt, spine darkened; light offsetting from plates, occasional foxing on text leaves and plates. Armorial booklabel of the Earl of Minto. London: Edwards, [1793]
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large-paper copy of this edition of a popular account of amorous intrigue at the court of Charles II, first published in 1713. Cohen-de Ricci 472; Gay-Lemonnyer III, 128 ("la plus belle édition et la plus curieuse par ses notes"); Tchemerzine (1977) III, 657.