MAINTENON (Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de).... Lot 1317

MAINTENON (Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de). Letters of Madame de Maintenon, to various persons, and to M. d'Aubigné, her brother. Amsterdam, at the publisher's expense, 1755-1756. 9 vol. in-12 marbled calf, spine with ornamented nerves, red tr. (binding of the time). Volumes I to VIII : Letters of Madame de Maintenon to various persons, and to M. d'Aubigné, her brother. Amsterdam, at the publisher's expense, 1756. - Volume IX: Letters of Messire Paul Godet des Marais, bishop of Chartres, to Madame de Maintenon, collected by the abbot Berthier. Brussels, Printed by Ant. Bruyn, 1755. Second edition, definitive, given by La Beaumelle, who published them for the first time in 1752-1753 under the title "Vie et lettres de Madame de Maintenon". It is the most complete edition of the letters of Madame de Maintenon which knew a resounding editorial success. (Tchemerzine, VII, 338; Brunet, III, 1321-1322.) Rough restoration to the first cover of volume I, some spotting, wormholes in the lower margin of volume 3, in the outer margin of volume 7 and in the lower corner of volume 9.