Three French titles: (1) (Hortense Mancini). Les illustres avanturieres

dans les cours des princes d'Italie, de France & d'Angleterre. Cologne, P. Marteau, 1706, 216 pp., contemp. calf, gilt and ribbed spine, 12mo.

Browned. Chipped at spine-ends and outer corners showing; covers stained and rubbed. Very rare second edition (first 1701) of these memoires, attributed to Mme Du Ruth, to Hortense Mancini, duchesse de Mazarin and to César Vichard, abbé de Saint-Réal. (2) (Marie Catherine Hortense Desjardins de Villedieu). Les avantures, ou memoires de la vie de Henriette Sylvie de Moliere. Paris, "et se vend a Bruxelles chez Jean van Vlaanderen"/ "suivant la copie imprimée a Paris" (parts 2-6), 1707, 6 parts in 1 vol. w. continuous pagination, 370 pp., woodcut title-vignette of a sphere on all divisional titles, contemp.calf, ribbed spine w. mor. letterpiece, 12mo. First few lvs. vaguely waterst. in outer margin. Spine-ends chipped. Also attributed to d'Alègre. And 1 other similar. (total 3)