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SOREL (Charles). La Fortune de la Cour. Ouvrage curieux tiré des Mémoires d'un des principaux Conseillers du Duc d'Alençon frère du Roy Henry III. Paris, chez Nicolas de Sercy, 1642. In-12, pastiche binding (signed Pralon), 18th-century style, full tan mottled calf, ribbed spine, gilt boxes decorated with gilt small irons, gilt title, gilt scrolls on the edges, pebbled endpapers, [24] ff.- 599 pp.- [3] ff. bandeaux, lettrines. 2 old bookplates with stamp, a 3rd modern one. Small scratch on the spine at the level of the title, jaws & corners a little rubbed, fine copy. Rare first edition. Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (1582(?) - 1674) was a French novelist and writer.
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SOREL (Charles). La Fortune de la Cour. Ouvrage curieux tiré des Mémoires d'un des principaux Conseillers du Duc d'Alençon frère du Roy Henry III. Paris, chez Nicolas de Sercy, 1642. In-12, pastiche binding (signed Pralon), 18th-century style, full tan mottled calf, ribbed spine, gilt boxes decorated with gilt small irons, gilt title, gilt scrolls on the edges, pebbled endpapers, [24] ff.- 599 pp.- [3] ff. bandeaux, lettrines. 2 old bookplates with stamp, a 3rd modern one. Small scratch on the spine at the level of the title, jaws & corners a little rubbed, fine copy. Rare first edition. Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (1582(?) - 1674) was a French novelist and writer.
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