Mémoires et Lettres du Maréchal, Prince de Ligne;

LIGNE Charles Joseph Prince de (1809)

£200.00 

faisant suite aux Lettres et Pensées du mêmeAuteur, publiées par Madame La Baronne de Stael Holstein: contenant des Anecdotes Inédites sur les Differentes Cours de l'Europe, &c. Two volumes. Small 8vo. Light browning throughout, some worming in the tail margin towards the rear of Volume II affecting c.25ll., but overall good in contemporary half calf on marbled boards, rubbed. xii, 244pp., viii, 240pp. Chez Colburn, Libraire, à Londres,

Far from common collection of observations, reminiscences, and letters from the pen of one of the most intriguing memorialists of C18 Europe. This compilation was prepared by his friend Mme de Staël.

Loosely inserted contemporary transcription of a letter from Ligne on European affairs written during the Congress of Vienna.

Later book labels of Mrs. Stanley Leighton to the pastedowns.

Stock Code: 90382

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