Guise, Les amours du grand Alcandre, Paris, 1786, 2 volumes, contemporary red morocco gilt

GUISE, MADEMOISELLE DE [LOUISE-MARGUERITE DE LORRAINE]

Les amours du grand Alcandre, suivis de pieces intéressantes pour servir à l'histoire de Henri IV. Paris: Didot l'ainé, 1786

2 volumes, 12mo (147 x 85mm.), half-titles, folding genealogical table in volume 2, contemporary red morocco gilt, flat spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces, spines slightly faded, joints cracking, bookplate removed from volume 2

PROVENANCE:

armorial bookplate with motto "Sapere aude", of the Parker family (as viscounts Macclesfield); loosely inserted is an extract from a 1950s Parke-Bernet sale, lot 136, giving the bookplate as De Marchaumont