MAINTENON (Madame de) - Lot 45

MAINTENON (Madame de) Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon, & à celle du siècle passé. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de l'Auteur, 1755. - Lettres. Amsterdam, 1756. - Lettres de Messire Paul Godet des Marais, évêque de Chartres, à Madame de Maintenon. Brussels, Ant. Bruyn, 1755. Together 15 volumes in 8 volumes in-12, lemon morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, red title and olive tomaison, red piece at the tail of the first volume marked La Baumelle 1755, interior roulette, gilt edges (Period binding). Title-frontispiece, portrait of Madame de Maintenon engraved by G. Sibelius and portrait engraved by Fritsch in the first two volumes of the Mémoires, which were given by La Baumelle and led to his imprisonment. A lemon morocco copy from the Lamoignon library, with the repeated wet stamp and characteristic quotation on the endpapers. Frequent foxing, traces of damp. Spine darkened. Without the portrait and title-frontispiece announced by Tchemerzine in Lettres.