Title: Memoires de Marguerite de Valois Reine de France et de Navarre Author: Marguerite de Valois Place: Liege Publisher: Jean Francois Broncart Date: 1713 Description: [viii], 459, [17] pp. Lacking the portrait frontispiece. (12mo) 16.5x10 cm (6½x4"), early full calf, spine gilt. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Henri II and Catherine de’ Medici, was married to Henri de Navarre (later Henri IV). While still a young woman, she became famous for her beauty, learning, and licentiousness. Her memoirs were "admirably written" and "rank among the best of the sixteenth century". (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.). Lot Amendments Condition: Spine chipped, binding rubbed, bookplate; lacking frontispiece; some foxing; very good. Item number: 240250
Title: Memoires de Marguerite de Valois Reine de France et de Navarre Author: Marguerite de Valois Place: Liege Publisher: Jean Francois Broncart Date: 1713 Description: [viii], 459, [17] pp. Lacking the portrait frontispiece. (12mo) 16.5x10 cm (6½x4"), early full calf, spine gilt. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Henri II and Catherine de’ Medici, was married to Henri de Navarre (later Henri IV). While still a young woman, she became famous for her beauty, learning, and licentiousness. Her memoirs were "admirably written" and "rank among the best of the sixteenth century". (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.). Lot Amendments Condition: Spine chipped, binding rubbed, bookplate; lacking frontispiece; some foxing; very good. Item number: 240250
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