Letters from a Portugese Nun to an Officer. Translated

by W.R. Bowles by Mariana Alcoforado

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

Second edition. Bowles First edition was done in 1808. Frontis. xv, i , 28pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original almost contemporary ribbed brown cloth, gilt spine. VG. Bookplate. Item #303744 Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of these Letters of a Portuguese Nun in only 5 letters. Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly and later Marshal

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