Memoires du Comte Grammont. by Hamilton, Anthony, Count - 1802: >>MINIATURE BOOK<<

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1714. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated Second Edition, first published in 1713, 8vo, full period brown calf, heavily gilt decorated spine, light rubbing and wear, very good, 304 pp., some rubbing to corners and joints, light spottiness and scuffing to boards, contents clean and bright. An early edition of these posthumously published memoirs (the count lived from 1621 to 1707), dictated in part, but mainly authored by his brother in law Anthony Hamilton. The count, who had no scruples as far as women or money were concerned, was exiled from France in 1662 for seducing one of the king's favorite mistresses. He went to England, where he found the court of Charles II to his satisfaction, filled with intrigue, amatory adventures, etc. There he married Elizabeth Hamilton, reportedly forced by her brothers to do so. They went back to France where the Countess who was witty and beautiful held her own in the court of Louis XIV. The memoirs of the count are among the… Read More

London: Edwards, 1792. hardcover. very good. With about 80 superb stipple portraits after S. Harding. Thick, large 4to, full contemporary diced calf; (expertly rebacked, inner hinges mended, some foxing). Londres: Edwards, (1792-3). Very good.<br/><br/> The magnificent large-paper edition, with splendid portraits, and including the 77pp. "Notes et Eclaircissemens."<br/><br/>

Londres: chez Edwards, n.d., 1793. 4to, [8], 313, 77 (notes et eclaircissemens) & [2]pp., 77 (of 78) engraved portraits, 1 engraved view (lacking the second portrait of the author at p. 1); slightly later full polished calf neatly rebacked, joints starting, extremities rubbed, else very good. Lowndes, p. 985.

A Londres: Chez J. Dodsley, 1783. 4to, 235 x 175 mms., pp. xxi [xxii - xxiii contents, xxiv blank], 290 [291 - 293 Index, 294 blank, engraved portrait of Grammont as frontispiece, further engraved portraits of Hamilton opposite page [iv], and of Cometesse Grammont opposite page 92, contemporary calf; corner cut from title-page and following page to remove name,, joints cracked and tender, corners worn, top and base of spine chipped. With a contemporary inscription of five lines in French on the recto of the front paste-down end-paper, 19th century autograph "Rebecca Hinds 1822" on title-page. Walpole (1717 - 1797) published this first at the Strawberry Hill Press in 1772, printing only 100 copies; this Dodsley imprint is the second edition and Walpole wrote an introduction for it. Hazen: Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, no. 18; no. 54 in his bibliography of Walpole.