MAUREPAS. - Lot 127

MAUREPAS. MAUREPAS. Memoirs of the Count of Maurepas, Minister of the Navy, etc. Second edition. Avec onze Caricatures du temps, gravées en Taille-douce. A Paris, chez Buisson, 1792, 4 volumes in-12 bound in half basane, ornate smooth spines, title and appendices, marbled edges. Illustrated with 11 hors-texte plates, caricatures of famous people (Louis Le Grand, Mme de Maintenon, Louvois, Boufflers, Pelisson, Marsillac, Basville, Bossuet, the Countess of Marsan, the Abbé de Cheyla and G. de Furstenberg). Ex-libris of the Bibliothèque du Cabinet de M. Henry de Rosnel. The best and most complete edition of these picturesque Memoirs written by Salé, Secretary of Maurepas, on the last years of Louis XIV and the minority of Louis XV.