Mémoires de Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, principal ministre de Henry le Grand, in 3 Vols.

L, 1745, 1st. Edn. With numerous engraved portraits. 4to. (26x20 cm). Full leather with "George Blissett" with gilt shield to upper covers, and "Honoris causa" to lower boards; and with the Armorial bookplate of "John W. De Kay" to front pastedowns. Covers rubbed and upper cover to vol.1 detached; [Quesnel, Pierre]: Histoire de l'admirable Dom Inigo de Guipuscoa [Ignacio de Loyola] chevalier de la Vierge : et fondateur de la monarchie des inighistes, 3 Vols. In 1, complete. La Haye, Charles Le Vier, 1738. PP: (4), 326, (2); (2), 178, (46); 148, (2)p.+ Frontispiece. 16x10.5 cm, Cont. full speckled calf, rubbed; Prévost, Pierre: Notice De La Vie Et Des Écrits De George-louis Le Sage De Genève: Suivie D'un Opuscule De Lesage Sur Les Causes Finales, D'extraits De Sa Correspondan. Geneve, J J Paschoud, 1805. PP: (ii) original wrapper, viii, 607, (I) blank, (I). Later leather backed boards, edges untrimmed. Light damp stain to the margins of few pages at the start and finish; &, Vie publique et privée de Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau. Paris, Hotel d'Aiguillon, 1791. 127pp (18x12 cm), original marbled card covers, rubbed. (6)

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From the library of Michael Kuczynski