[Rarebooks] fa: MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ - re. Louis XIV, Cardinal Mazarin, &c. - 1723

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Auction ending Sunday, October 30. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

[Jean Francois Paul de Gondi de Retz; Peter Davall, trans.]: Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, containing all the Great Events during the Minority of Louis XIV, and Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. Done out of French. London: Printed for J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill; Mr. Stag, and Mr. King, in Westminster-Hall; T. Payne, near Stationers-Hall; and A. Dodd, without Temple-Bar, 1723. First edition thus; 8vo (19.5 cm) in early/period paneled calf, spine decorated in gilt; viii, [4], 332 pp.; woodcut decorations and initials. ESTC T88960.

Binding rubbed and worn, corners exposed, front and rear hinges cracked but both boards are holding, repaired tear to the leather on the rear board; contents with light browning, a few occasional spots and touches of soiling, else clean sound. Front paste-down with an early armorial bookplate bearing the motto: "Nunquam non paratus."