Lot 54 - Attributed to the Duke of La Rochefoucauld;

Attributed to the Duke of La Rochefoucauld; Mémoires de la minorité de Louis XIV, sur ce qui s'est passé à la fin de la vie de Louis XIII, & pendant la Régence d'Anne d'Autriche, mère de Louis XIV, published Jean de Paul, Villefranche (probably a false imprint for Amsterdam) 1688, 12mo, 342 pages, red and black ink title page with publishers device, gilt decorated and titled spine with raised bands, with armorial bookplate for the Carton Library featuring family crest of monkeys beside and upon a large coroneted saltaire cross with Fitzgerald family motto 'Crom A Boo'*, with further paper label stating Bookcase No 17 Shelf No.6; together with Maximes et Réflexions Morales du Duc François de La Rochefoucauld, Pierre Didot 'aine et de Firmin Didot, Paris, 1802, marbled endpapers and bookplate for Charles Stirling and motto 'Gang Forward' (2)

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