Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 260
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(GESVRES, FRANÇOIS-JOACHIM-BERNARD POTIER, Duc de.) The Case of Impotency Debated, in the late Famous Tryal at Paris; between the Marquis de Gesvres and his Lady, Mademoiselle de Mascranny. [4], 326, [2]; 197, [3] pages. 2 volumes. 12mo, 160x94 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed, Volume 1 front joint cracked, cords intact; contents toned with scattered minor stains, small hole in I1 in Volume 1 affecting a few letters. 18th-century armorial bookplate of the Earl of Galloway mounted on otherwise blank verso of titles. London: E. Curll, 1715

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Second edition of a 1714 translation of documents from a notorious divorce trial of the period.