Historical Library For The Use Of Ladies, 24 Beautiful Volumes In 8 Château Des Ormes d'Argenson

Rare series of 24 Volumes in 8 in blond glazed calf from the "Bibliothèque Historique à l'usage des Dames", New Edition, corrected. In Paris, at Moutard, Printer-Bookseller to the Queen (Marie Antoinette), Madame, & Madame Comtesse d'Artois, rue des Mathurins, Hôtel de Cluni. M. DCC. LXXXV (1785 & 86). Very fine copy in blond glazed calf, triple fillets on the covers, smooth spines with baroque irons with incels of vine foliage, titles and volume numbers in red and olive green morocco, marbled ultramarine blue guards, yellowed edges, interior lacework. Bookplate with the Arms of the d'Argenson Family, Whose Ancestor was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Louis XV, later repudiated by the King influenced by Pompadour; during his exile he was the father of modern bibliophily, a great lover of books and having gathered in his retirement a brilliant and select Court, his descendant Paulmy d'Argenson of which this copy is his under the handwritten inventory number 1371 on the ex-libris with the Arms of the Bibliothèque d'Argenson.