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DE VALOIS, Margaret. Memoirs of margaret de valois queen of navarre: Containing the Secret History of the Court of France for Seventeen Years, viz., from 1565 to 1582, during the Reigns of Charles IX. and Henry III. Written by herself, in a series of letters.

London. H. S. Nichols & Co., 1895.
8vo. Limited edition of 500 copies. xxiv, 286pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines a trifle sunned. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to FEP, occasional spotting/browning.
The memoirs of Margaret de Valois (1553-1615), daughter of Catherine de Medici, queen consort of Navarre and later France, known for her support of the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion.
£ 50.00 Antiquates Ref: 21722