Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[MANLEY, DELARIVIÈRE.] Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. Engraved frontispiece in the second volume, not called for in the first. [2], vi, 246; [12], 272 pages, with early owner's manuscript key to the characters tipped in at end of each volume. 2 volumes. 8vo, 191x109 and 188x112 mm, contemporary mottled calf, bindings not uniform, spine ends chipped on first volume, joints reinforced on the second; contents toned or browned with scattered foxing, wormtrail through opening leaves of first volume not impairing legibility. Stoneleigh Abbey armorial bookplates of William Henry Leigh, second Baron Leigh (1824-1905). London: John Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709

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first edition of a best-selling roman-à-clef ridiculing Whig sexual and political behavior, "the archetypal scandal novel" (NCBEL). Howgego V, M12.