Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de Frêne. Enrichis de figures.

8vo: [14]-402 pp. (browning throughout, tear in A touching some letters).

Contemp. calf (corners rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (some sm. wormholes, lower joint splitting, bands rubbed), marbled endpapers.

First edition of this curious story of a woman sold by her husband to a pirate written by the French novelist, journalist, pamphleteer and memorialist Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (1644-1712). He was a specialist in biographies and semi-fictional "memoirs" written in the first person. In this case we follow a real odyssey taking us through Genoa, a desert island, the Morea, Ulcinj, Malta and Rome. Ill. with an engr. front. and 29 full-page engr. plates.
Ref. Cioranescu 22332. - STCN. - BnF.
Prov. Dr. Daguillon (mod. bookpl. and blindst.).