[Rarebooks] FS: MEMOIRES DE LA VIE DU COMTE DE GRAMMONT

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Hamilton, Anthony; Grammont, Philibert, comte de (Gramont). MEMOIRES 
DE LA VIE DU COMTE DE GRAMMONT; CONTENANT PARTICULIEREMENT L'HISTOIRE 
AMOUREUSE DE LA COUR D'ANGLETERRE, SOUS LE REGNE DE CHARLES II. 
Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1713. iv, 426, [2] pp. 12mo.(17 cm). Brunet 
III, p.29; Picot / Rothschild 1693. Graesse 204 (Later ed.). Ruble 
452. Querard 815-16. Backer 1065. Full calf, raised bands, six gilt 
decorated compartments, marbled endpapers. Title in red and black. 
First edition.

Thought to be written all or in part by Anthony Hamilton, Grammont's 
brother-in-law, a Jacobite officer who fought at the Boyne and 
settled in France after the first exile of the Stuarts. Grammont was 
an unscrupulous libertine and gambler who was eventually banished 
from the Court of Louis XIV for casting an eye (most certainly more) 
on one of the King's favorites. Grammont appears to have dictated the 
first and most entertaining section, down to his exile, to Hamilton 
while the last part, largely concerned with scandals of the court of 
Charles II, is by Hamilton. "The memoirs are written in admirable 
French, in a light, easy, slightly ironic style," OCFL. Armourial 
bookplate of de Constant Rebecque. Spine scuffed else a very good 
copy with boards rubbed, a few tiny worm holes to the top edge of the 
rear board, endpapers toned at the edges, binding tight, text clean 
with only some odd foxing.  [26151] $500.00

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P. O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424
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