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[VARIOUS]
Secret Court Memoirs.
A fine set of English translations of various interesting and salacious court memoirs from across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
- Published
- London: The Grolier Society, (no date, circa 1900)
- Plates
- 185
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: The Grolier Society, (no date, circa 1900)
- Ref
- 119
Frontispiece and other plates throughout each appearing in 2 states (hand-coloured and b/w) protected with lettered tissue guards. Thick octavo's handsomely bound by Brentano's in 3/4 green morocco (gilt-stamped spines with raised bands are evenly faded to brown); uncut edges partially unopened, top edges gilt. Some inner hinges cracked. A near fine set. Limited edition of only 26 lettered copies. Three volumes: Court of Empress Josephine. 2 volumes: Courts of Louis XV and XVII. 2 volumes: Court of St. Cloud. 2 volumes: Court of Berlin. 2 volumes: Madame de Montespan. 2 volumes: Courts of Sweden and Denmark. 2 volumes: Court of Marie Antoinette. 1 volume: Court of Marguerite de Valois. 1 volume: Court of Louis XIV. 1 volume: Court of Henri IV. 1 volume: Court of Cardinal de Retz. 1 volume: Catherine II and Court of St. Petersburg. 20 volumes in total. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. Marie Antoinette. 1. Frontispiece. Duchess Du Barry. [Title page]. 2. Mme La Marquise De Noailles. 3. Princesse de Lamballe. 4. The Parisian Bonne. 5. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. 6. Marie Antoinette and Mme Campan, her lady-in-waiting. 7. P.A. Caron de Beaumarchais. 8. The Reveille. Volume 2. 9. Frontispiece. Madame Adelarde, as Diana. [Title page] 10. Bedroom of Louis XVI. 11. The Bastille. 12. Opening of the States-General. 13. Park of the Petit Trianon. 14. Louis XVI. 15. Marie Antoinette on the way to the Guillotine. 16. Madame Campan. Volume 1. Madame de Montespan. 17. Frontispiece. Madame de Montespan. [Title page] 18. Hortense Mancini. 19. Madame de La Valliere. 20. Moliere. 21. Boileau. 22. Corneille. 23. A French Courtier. Volume 2. 24. Frontispiece. Madame de Maintenon, afterward wife of Louis XIV. [Title page] 25. Portrait of Charles II. 26. Bossuet. 27. Louis XIV. Knighting a Subject. 28. Cardinal Mazarin and his Nieces. 29. A French Actress. 30. Racine. 31. The Gallery of Mirrors, Versailles. Volume 1. St Cloud. 32. Frontispiece. Napoleon. [Title page] 33. Napoleon Joseph. Frere de L'Emprereur, Grand Electeur. 34. Murat. 35. Episode at Cardinal Caprara's. 36. Fouche. 37. Cardinal Fesch. 38. Talleyrand. 39. Chapel of Fontainebleau. 40. Episode at Mme Minot's. 41. Napoleon. 42. "A Grand Dinner". Volume 2. 43. Frontispiece. Queen Louise. [Title page] 44. Bernadotte. 45. Chaptal. 46. Mme Chevalier. 47. Turreaux. 48. Carrier. 49. Barrere. 50. Junot. 51. Pauline Bonaparte. 52. Ney. 53. Cambaceres. 54. Marmont. Volume 1. The Empress Josephine. 55. Frontispiece. Death of Lannes. [Title page] 56. Napoleon. 57. Valence. 58. Madame Recamier. 59. Mme Talleyrand. 60. Mme de Stael. 61. Benjamin Constant. 62. Chateaubriand. 63. Pope Pius VII. 64. Josephine Imperatrice des Francais et Reine D'Italie. 65. Napoleon. 66. Portrait of Moreau. Volume 2. 67. Frontispiece. Revolt of Pavia. [Title page] 68. Maury. 69. Davoust. 70. Hortense. 71. E. Sieyes. 72. Mme de Genlis. 73. Comte d'Artois. 74. Malmaison. 75. Salon of Josephine. Volume 3. 76. Frontispiece. Napoleon and the Pope. [Title page] 77. Alexandre Beauharnois. 78. Murat. 79. Napoleon. 80. Berthier. 81. King of Rome. 82. Caroline Bonaparte. 83. Marie Louise. 84. Duchesse de Berry. 85. Supper at Beaucaire. Volume 1. Louis XV & XVI. 86. Frontispiece. Marie Antoinette on the way to the Guillotine. [Title page] 87. Portrait of the Comtesse de la Motte. 88. Marie Antoinette. 89. Mr Necker. 90. Madame Elisabeth. 91. Louis XVI. 92. Mirabeau and the Queen. 93. Lafayette. 94. Princess Lamballe. 95. Marie Antoinette in the Temple. 96. Duc d'Orleans. 97. Interviewing Little Louis. Volume 2. 98. Frontispiece. "It was an Indigestion". [Title page] 99. Madame du Hausset. 100. Voltaire. 101. Madame de Pompadour. 102. Louis XV. 103. Marie Antoinette. 104. Madame Adelaide. 105. Comtesse Dubarry. 106. The Palace of Versailles. 107. Petit Trianon. 108. Comte d'Artois (Charles X). 109. Madame Sophie. Volume 1. Sweden & Denmark. 110. Frontispiece. Matilda, Queen of Sweden. [Title page] 111. Christian VII. 112. Queen Juliana Maria. 113. Count Rantzau. 114. The Reception at the Royal Palace of Fredericksburg, Copenhagen. 115. Sophia Livernet. 116. Swedish Peasant Girl. 117. Frederick VI. Volume 2. 118. Frontispiece. Queen Sophie. [Title page] 119. Gustavus III. 120. The Danish Fleet. 121. The Quay at Stockholm, Sweden. 122. Danish Peasant Girl. 123. Palace of Christiansborg. 124. Gustavus IV. 125. Frederika Dorothea of Sweden. Volume 1. Berlin. 126. Frontispiece. Mademoiselle Voss. [Title page] 127. Madame Hartfeld. 128. Frederick the Great. 129. Frederick William II. 130. "She Made Him Sit Down by Her Side." 131. Joseph II. 132. Potsdam. 132. Mirabeau. Volume 2. 133. Frontispiece. Princess Frederica in her Boudoir. [Title page] 134. Catharine II. 135. Sans Souci. 136. Duke of Weimar. 137. "Some Noise Was Heard at the Door." 138. Madame Reitz. 139. Calonne. 140. Duke of Brunswick. Marguerite de Valois. Only volume. 141. Frontispiece. Marguerite de Valois. [Title page] 142. Bussi d'Amboise. 143. The Huguenot Beseeching Protection. 144. Duc de Guise. 145. Catherine de Medici. 146. Duc d'Alencon. 147. Henri of Navarre and La Fosseuse. 148. A Scene at Henri's Court. Louis XVI. Only Volume. 149. Frontispiece. "Everybody Must Live." [Title page] 150. Madame de Maintenon. 151. Madame de La Valliere. 152. Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente, afterwards Mme de Montespan. 153. Philippe, Duc D'Orleans. 154. Louis XIV. 155. The Regent and His Mother. 156. Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans, and Her Children. 157. Princesse de Conti. 158. Abbe Dubois. 159. "Overturn Here, You Blockhead!" 160. Duchesse du Maine. St. Petersburg. Only Volume. 161. Frontispiece. Potemkin and Catherine II in her boudoir. [Title page] 162. Princess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia. 163. Catherine II of Russia. 164. Paul I. Czar of Russia. 165. Peter III. Czar of Russia. 166. Alexander I of Russia. 167. Prince Potemkin, the favourite of Catherine II. 168. Russian Peasant Girl. 169. Grand Hall of the Royal Palace, St. Petersbourg. Henri IV. Only Volume. 170. Frontispiece. Henri IV. King of France and Navarre. [Title page] 171. The Massacre of Saint Barthomew. 172. Henri III. 173. Gabrielle d'Estrees. 174. Marie de Medicis. 175. Philip II. 176. Marguerite de Valois. 177. A Huguenot Officer. Cardinal de Retz. Only Volume. 178. Frontispiece. Cardinal de Retz. [Title page] 179. Turenne. 180. Mazrine. 181. Richlieu. 182. Anne of Austria. 183. Louis XIII. 184. Charles II. 185. Conde.
