MANUSCRIT] - hamilton, Anthony - Fragments de la vie du Comt - Lot 708

MANUSCRIT] - hamilton, Anthony - Fragments de la vie du Comte de Gramont. S. l. n. d., c. 1712. 2 parts in 2 vols. in-4, 335, 444 pp. carefully calligraphed text. Chap. IX begins on page 27 of vol. II, without separation from chap. VIII, as does chap. XI, page 180, green morocco, wide gilt roll on covers, spine ribbed and ornamented, a little sunned, gilt edges, fart repair on one cover. One of the copies circulating in Versailles under this title, prior to the fraudulent publication in 1713 of Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont. The text faithfully follows the original. A 3rd part, which never appeared, is announced at the end of volume II, as in all other editions. Hamilton, a French-speaking Irish writer, (Roscrea ? 1646 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1720) frequented the society of the Vendomes and shone at the small Court of the Duchess of Maine. In his Memoirs, he recounts the witty adventures of his own brother-in-law, in turn military, playful and gallant at the French and English Courts.