Memoires de mademoiselle de Montpensier : fille de Gaston d'Orléans, frere de Louis XIII. Roi de France.
Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693).
Category
Books
Date
1735
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223098.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.4, plate :. port.. ;. 12mo. (16cm). Marked "D 5/7"; "L F.1"; "2.B." [changed from "1.[I?]". Provenance: Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century armorial bookplate showing Stewart arms impaled with Pratt arms, flanked by two supporters, underneath an earl's coronet. Motto "Metuenda corolla draconis", lettered "Londonderry" [used by either Robert Stewart (1739-1821) cr. 1st Earl of Londonderry in 1796, cr. 1st Marquess of Londonderry in 1816, or his second wife Lady Frances Pratt (ca. 1751-1833), dau. of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, five raised bands. Brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt "Memoires de Monpensi Tom: IV. Edges densely sprinkled blue.
Makers and roles
Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693). Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693).