Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(LOUIS, GRAND DAUPHIN.) La Chasse au Loup de Monseigneur le Dauphin. 312 pages, including etched frontispiece depicting wolf hunt. bound with: (LOUIS-FRANÇOIS, DUC DE BOUFFLERS.) Histoire des Amours du Maréchal de Bouflers; ou, Les Intrigues Galantes qu'il a eu, depuis qu'il a commandé les Armées du Roy de France. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Boufflers. 437 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 12mo, 132x70 mm, contemporary 1/4 leather with gilt arms of Johann Georg Baron von Pichelstorff und Altenburg on covers, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip; contents of the first work toned, second work clean, with portrait cropped in outer and lower margins. Cologne: Pierre Martel, 1695; "Paris: Anthoine Palmier," 1696

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first editions of satiric works of fiction on the affairs of the eldest son of Louis XIV with the Comtesse du Roure, and the Maréchal de Boufflers with assorted women. Gay-Lemonnyer I, 559, and II, 537; Schwerdt I, 106 (first work).