Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic and Literary (2 vols.)

New York / London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. VG. Colored marbled paper over boards; Brown cloth at corners and spines; Matching marbled endpapers; 461 pp. (vol. I), 443 pp. (vol. II); 18 bw plates, (vol. I), 14 bw plates (vol. II). Twenty-eight biographical sketches of figures such as Cardinal de Richelieu, Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Anne-Genevieve de Bourbon, Marie-Madeleine de la Vergne, Louis XIV, Moliere, Blaise Pascal, Racine, Comte Antoine Hamilton, and others. (Inventory #: 122460)