Memoirs of the cardinal de retz: containing all the great events during the minority of louis XIV. And administration of cardinal mazarin.
London.
H. S. Nichols, 1896.
8vo.
Limited edition of 500 copies. xv, [1], 304pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to FEP, occasional spotting/browning.
A life of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (1613-1679), sometime Archbishop of Paris, rival of Cardinal Mazarin, and agitator in the Fronde.
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref: 21721
