DE MOTTEVILLE, Madame.
Memoirs to serve the history of Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII, King of France. Maestricht, Jean-Edme Dufour & Phil. Roux, 1782. 6 vols. in-12. Gilt arms in the centre of the boards (brought back afterwards), spine gilt, red morocco title-pieces and black morocco tomato-pieces. Copy of Sir Charles Stuart, (1779-1845) created Baron of Rothesay, in 1828, Ambassador Extraordinary of England in Paris, with the motto : "nobilis ira avito viret honore".
O.H.R. pl. 555 for another iron, and Guigard, II, 444 which reproduces the iron of our binding. Arms struck later.
Some rubbed corners, missing headpiece, small worm holes in binding.
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