MONTPENSIER (Louis-Antoine-Philippe d'Orléans, duc de) - Memoirs of the Duke of Montpensier (Antoine-Philippe d'Orléans) Prince of the Blood - Paris; Imprimerie Royale, 1837 - 1 small volume In-4° - Small scattered freckles - Self-portrait frontispiece engraved by Dupont mounted on china - Beautiful romantic binding of the period cherry morocco richly decorated with gilt fillets, fleurons and roulettes, central diamond medallion, interior roulette, blue moire boards and endpapers (1 corner worn, 2 corners dull, 2 corners bumped, jaws rubbed) - Smooth spine decorated and titled in gold (headpieces damaged) - Gilt edges - Antoine-Philippe was one of the two younger brothers of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (Philippe Egalité). His memoirs are the account of his captivity at Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille, from April 1793 to August 1796.

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