[Rarebooks] fa: CARDINAL DE BERNIS - MEMOIRES ET LETTRES + DEPUIS SON MINISTERE 3 vols. 1878-84

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Francois-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis; Frederic Masson (ed.): Memoires et lettres de Francois-Joachim de Pierre Cardinal de Bernis (1715-1758). Publiees avec l'autorisation de sa famille d'apres les manuscrits inedits. Paris: E. Plon et Cie., 1878. Two volumes. [WITH:] Frederic Masson: Le Cardinal de Bernis depuis son ministere 1758-1794. La suppression des Jesuites — Le schisme constitutionnel. Paris: Plon, 1884.

Two works in three volumes. First editions; 8vo (23 cm), uniformly bound in green morocco-backed marbled boards, marbled endpapers; 478, 503 pp.; 568. pp. Bindings with modest rubbing and wear to the edges and corners, sunning to the top edge of the front boards; small early bookseller's ticket (Thornton & Son, Oxford) to the front paste-downs; some spotting to the fore-edge of the text blocks, else the contents are generally very clean and sound, firmly bound. Ownership signature of the English historian and civil servant Rohan Butler (1917-1996), longtime historical adviser to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Pierre de Bernis (1715-1794), cardinal and diplomat, was an intimate of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour, French ambassador to Rome, and a “renowned voluptuary” who played a prominent role in the life and memoirs (Histoire de ma vie) of Giacomo Casanova.