Tallemant des Reaux. - The Historiettes. Third edition entir - Lot 215

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Tallemant des Reaux. - The Historiettes. Third edition entir - Lot 215
Tallemant des Reaux. - The Historiettes. Third edition entirely revised on the original manuscript and arranged in a new order by MM. de Monmerqué and Paulin Paris. Paris, Techener, 1854. 9 volumes in-8, bound in contemporary blue half-maroquin, spines decorated with fleurons, fine gilt roulettes and fillets, speckled edges - XXX pp., [1 f.], 512 pp., [1 f.] ; [2 ff.], 550 pp., [1 f.] ; [2 ff.], 506 pp. ; [2 ff.], 542 pp. ; [2 ff.], 544 pp, folding facsimile; [2 ff.], 539 pp; [2 ff.], 571 pp; [2 ff.], CCCVII, [1 f.], 272 pp, [1 f.]; [2 ff.], XXIV, 518 pp, [1 f.], a few stains without gravity in volume 5, tear without lack of a leaf in volume 8. Although announced as the third edition, this is in fact the first complete edition based on the original autograph manuscript which belonged to the Duc d'Aumale. It begins with the reign of Henri IV and covers essentially the first sixty years of the Grand Siècle. Tallemant des Réaux offers a dazzling as well as reliable picture of the society of the 17th century, of which he frequented both the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. He was notably one of the visitors of the famous salon of Arthénice at the Hôtel de Rambouillet. Tallemant, who did not think he would be published, delivers his thoughts without shame. A nice copy, well bound.
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