MAUREPAS (Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux de). Mémoires du comte de - Lot 121

MAUREPAS (Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux de). Mémoires du comte de Maurepas, Ministre de la Marine &c. Avec onze caricatures du temps gravées en taille-douce. A Paris, chez Buisson, 1792.4 volumes in-8, modern blond half calf, smooth spine, title, gilt fleurons and gilt scrolls, small green velvet corners, yellow edges. Illustrated with 11 hors-texte copper-engraved caricatures at the end of volume 3. The false title, title and preface of volume 1 have been bound in at the beginning of the text of volume 2 (volume 1 is correct with its false title, title and preface), the rest is correct. Mention of 3rd ed. in title of t.1, of 2nd ed. in title of t.3. Provenance: Brotty, comte d'Antioche (1849-1920, engraved armorial bookplate).