MOUHY, CHARLES DE FIEUX.

Memoires d'Anne-Marie de Moras, Comtesse de Courbon. 4 parts.

A la Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1740.

8vo. Bound in a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. A nice and clean copy. (18), 79, (3), 112, (2), 107, (3), 135, (1) pp.       

First edition of Mouhy’s literary masterpiece inspired by real events. A young girl eloped in 1737 from a wealthy family of financiers, with a nobleman of modest means. Mouchy invents a narrative of her adventure from the perspective of the young girl, confined in a convent, while her lover has fled abroad to avoid his sentence of decapitation.

Order-nr.: 61159