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MEDAL featuring the Duchesse de Berry in profile, 19th century. Diameter: 14.5 cm

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MEDAL featuring the Duchesse de Berry in profile, 19th century. Diameter: 14.5 cm

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Set of 3 volumes: 2 collections of anti-Masonic articles circa 1900 and 1 collection of pamphlets about the Duchesse de Berry.

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[BERRY (With the arms of the Duchess of)]. Éphémérides politiques, littéraires et religieuses [...] Third edition. Paris, Le Normant et H. Nicolle, 1812. 12 volumes in-8 black morocco, finely decorated ribbed spines, gilt title and month, gilt fillet and series of quadruple cold fillets with quadruple gilt dots at corners framing the covers, gilt arms at center of covers, gilt tr., gilt grecque framing the counterplates, fuchsia pink tabis endpapers (period binding). Spines mostly faded to green, traces of moisture at the bottom of the cover of the October volume, small scattered spots. Apart from these few defects, a superb copy entirely bound with the arms of the DUCHESSE DE BERRY, with the engraved bookplate of the Rosny library. Armorial bookplate on second flyleaf.

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[BOURDON (Louis-Gabriel)]. Le Parc au cerf ou l'origine de l'affreux déficit. Par un zélé Patriote. A Paris, sur les débris de la Bastille, s. n., 1790. In-8, 191 pp, red basane with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title and date, gilt fillets on covers, gilt head. Complete with 4 plates: a frontispiece, portraits of the Duchesse de Châteauroux and Madame de Pompadour and a free engraving of banker Peixotte with Mademoiselle Dervieux, the latter plate missing from most copies. Rare first edition of this violent pamphlet against Louis XV and the monarchy, featuring Mademoiselle de Clermont, the Duchesse de Berry, the Marquise de Tournelle, the Marquise de Pompadour, Cardinal Dubois, the Countess du Barry and others. Le Parc au cerf was a house in Versailles to which Madame de Pompadour sent young women for Louis XV. Slightly rubbed, corners worn, scattered foxing, some pages browned, marginal tear not missing from the plate depicting the banker Peixotte (Gay III, 631.)

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