73 - ARGENS (Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'). Memoirs. With some letters on various subjects. Second edition. London, published by the Company, 1737. In-12, marbled calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, gilded coat of arms in the center of the covers (contemporary binding). Caps, mouthpieces, and corners worn. Brown ink stain in the margin of the last folios.

ARGENS (Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'). Memoirs. With some letters on various subjects. Second edition. London, published by the Company, 1737. In-12, marbled calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, gilded coat of arms in the center of the covers (contemporary binding). Caps, mouthpieces, and corners worn. Brown ink stain in the margin of the last folios. Bearing the coat of arms of Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville de Villeroy, Duchess of BOUFFLERS (1707–1787), a prominent figure at the court of Louis XV, successively Duchess of Boufflers and Marshal of Luxembourg, famous for her literary salon and for the protection she afforded Jean-Jacques Rousseau at her estate in Montmorency. (O.H.R. 924.) Bookplate of Roger Peyrefitte.