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Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe from the 16th to the 19th Century. Limited edition, number 262 of 1,000 sets printed on japon, with this set printed for Mr Thomas Breslin. This is an attractive and richly illustrated work on European court intrigue, which includes works on the courts of Marie Antoinette and Napoleon.Provenance: with the bookplate of William Lawrence O'Neill (1935-2016) to the front pastedowns and his initialled inscriptions dated December 1932 to the front free binder's blanks of volumes V and IX.

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