Galería de mujeres célebres.
Paris: Libreria de Garnier Hermanos, [1863]. 404 pp., [3] pp. Illus. with 12 engraved portraits with tissue guards. 4to. Publisher's dark green cloth, heavily decorated in gilt, violet, green, orange, and red; all edges gilt. First Spanish Language edition. Boards rubbed, extremities worn with minor loss, hinges starting, small booksellers label to front pastedown, remnants of tissue guard on frontis, owner's name stamped in blind on title, small puncture to top margin of first few leaves, scattered toning, contents lightly foxed and soiled, but clean overall. Palau 285087. Item #44552
Contents: Margarita, reina de Navarra; María Estuardo; Madama de Motteville; La duquesa de Montpensier; Magdalena de Scudéry; Madama Enriqueta, duquesa de Orleans; Madama de Sévigné y Madama de Maintenon; Madama de Caylus; La duquesa de Borgoña; La duquesa de Maine; Madama de Lambert; Madama Necker; Madama Geoffrin; Maria Antonieta; Goethe y Bettina; Madama Recamier; Madama Emilio de Girardin; Madama de Tracy; Eugenia de Guerin; La duquesa de Angulema. First published in Frence in 1859. Quite popular. Reprinted in 1885, 1892, and 1911 with different pagination. OCLC locates only four copies of this first edition: Washington Univ., Southern Illinois, BN Chile, BN France.
Price: $150.00