Voyer De Paulmy
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WORMELEY, KATHARINE PRESCOTT; TRANSLATED BY; SAINTE-BEUVE, C.A., INTRODUCTION. JOURNAL AND MEMOIRS OF THE MARQUIS D'ARGENSON, TWO VOLUMES Illustrated with Original Portraits, Boston: Hardy, Pratt & Company, 1901.
Rich red buckram, bright gilt seal to front boards, pastedown title panel to spines. Title panels toned, few rubs, clear print. All illustrations, and Limitation page tissue covered. Clean bright text, both solidly bound, few very mild rub spots. TEG, various pages deckled. Two nice solid books. First Edition, Limited 800/609. x 401, xi, 381, Tall 8 vo, 9 by 6 inches.
Limited Edition Published from the Autograph Mss. in the Library of the Louvre, by E.J.B. Rathery. D'Argenson's Journal begins with his Father, Marc-Rene de Voyer de Paulmy, and continues on with his early life, etc. Rene Louis De Voyer, De Paulmy Marquis (1694-1757), French statesman, son of the 1st Marquis D'Argenson's. The Marquis was Foreign Minister from November 1744 to January 1747, he was a master at studying people and events, and he knew Versailles from the inside. The Marquis was also good friends with Voltaire, and sympathized with the ideas and philosophy of those that supported the Age of Enlightenment. A writer and Bibliophile, the Marquis wrote a dim view of Louis XV and Pompadour, and he anticipated the crisis of 1748-1749, he also wrote of his support of Voltaire in his work: Considerations sur le gouvernement ancien et present de la France, published posthumously in 1764. This Journal, although abridged from the original tells of the rampant corruption, political and social, of the forty years that Louis VX reign. In his observations Versailles, the Government, and the state of France, he observed the decay first hand, it was understandable that he had prophesied the coming of the Revolution. Filled with anecdotes of politcal arguments, Court and King Louis XV private and political life, philosophers, and other influential people of that period. An excellent and personal look at the thoughts of an 'honest man,' watching the events that caused a crumbling Nation to completely collapse. Lengthy 37 page Introduction by C.A. Sainte-Beuve, with Notes by E.J.B. Rathery. Volume I., seven Photogravure illustrations, plus frontispiece of the Marquis; Volume II., five Photogravure illustrations, frontispiece, portrait of Louis XV. This is a First Edition, Versailles Edition, Limited to Eight Hundred Numbered Sets, of which this is No. 609. Cloth Very Good +
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BIBLIOTHEQUE UNIVERSELLE DES ROMANS. Ouvrage periodique. Janvier - Decembre 1780. 16 tomes en 8 volumes. Paris Au Bureau & chez Demonville
BARB., DA, I, 421 d. Importante collection parue de 1772 a 1789 en 112 volumes sous la direction de A.- R. Le Voyer d'Argenson, marquis de Paulmy, L.-E. de Lavergne, comte de Tressan, J.-Fr. de Bastide, L. Poinsinet, de Sivry, D.-Dom. Cardonne, Ch.-J. Mayer, J.-M.-L. Coupe, Couchu, B. Imbert et d'autres encore. Dos frotte, quelques rousseurs eparses.
17,5 x 10 cm, demi-basane (reliure 19e s.).
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BIBLIOTHEQUE UNIVERSELLE DES ROMANS. Ouvrage periodique. Janvier - Decembre 1784. 16 tomes en 8 volumes. Paris Au Bureau & chez Demonville
BARB., DA, I, 421 d. Importante collection parue de 1772 a 1789 en 112 volumes sous la direction de A.- R. Le Voyer d'Argenson, marquis de Paulmy, L.-E. de Lavergne, comte de Tressan, J.-Fr. de Bastide, L. Poinsinet, de Sivry, D.-Dom. Cardonne, Ch.-J. Mayer, J.-M.-L. Coupe, Couchu, B. Imbert et d'autres encore. Dos frotte, quelques rousseurs eparses.
17,5 x 10 cm, demi-basane (reliure 19e s.).
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d'Argenson, Marquis [Rene Louis de Voyer de Paulmy]: Essays, civil, moral, literary and political after the manner of M de Montaigne, interspresed with characters, portraits, anecdotes etc by the celebrated Marquis d'Argenson, many years Prime Minister of France. London: printed by the Logographic press for J Walter & R Baldwin, 1789.
First edition. 8vo, half-title, title, 456pp. The binding of this book is heavily worn, but just about intact [the leather has come off the boards, and the spine is chipped, lacks free endpapers, but the joints are sound]. The contents are good (inscription to title page). Suitable as a reading, working or binding copy.