The Secret Memoirs of the Duc De Roquelaure Written By Himself Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English in Four Volumes

S. l.: Privately Printed, 1896. Hardcover. First edition thus, limited to 1000 numbered copies, 500 of which are for America (this set # 438); 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 383, 376, 373, 369 respectively; cream parchment over boards; embossed, ruled, and decorated in gilt; a bit of rubbing to tips of spine and corners; uniform age-toning to spines and margins of boards; deckled page edges; overall in very good condition. Bookplates to front boards verso of Dr. Robert Alway Peers (1875 - 1970) - renowned, nationally-recognized expert on tuberculosis and adviser to the Governing Board of the famous Weimar Sanitarium.Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure (1617-1683) was the Duke of Roquelaure and the son of Marshal of France Antoine de Roquelaure. He was also a courtier during the reign of Louis XIV in Versailles.