Montpensier (Marie de Bourbon) - Lot 71

Montpensier (Marie de Bourbon) Mémoires de Mlle de Montpensier, daughter of Gaston d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIII. Paris, Foucault, 1825. 3 volumes in-8° in contemporary bindings, full blond calf, ribbed spine with brown basane title page, gilded decoration, with the Duc d'Orléans figures at the foot. Romantic cold decoration framing the boards, all edges gilt. Used rubbing, two small cracks to the spine of volume 3, a larger crack to the spine of the first cover of volume 1, spines slightly sunned. Scattered foxing. These 3 volumes are part of the collection of memoirs relating to the history of France by Petitot. Bookplate from the library of S.A.R. monseigneur le Duc de Vendôme. Wet stamps from the library of the Château d'Eu, figures of the Duc d'Orléans at foot. Fine provenance.