1726 Rare French Book - Knights Errant - LES CHEVALIERS ERRANS by Comtesse d'Auneuil
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Author : Madame la Comtesse D**; Louise de BOSSIGNY, Countess d'Auneuil.
Title : Les Chevaliers Errans et Le Génie Familier.
Language : Text in French.
Publisher : A Amsterdam : Chez Michel Charles Le Cene, libraire, chez qui l'on trouve un assortiment général de musique, 1726.
Size : 5.5 " X 3 ".
Pages : 259 pages.
Binding : Very good and attractive original full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, some foxing and staining, note of a previous owner on first endpaper, old catalogue notices about editions of this book paste on first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Including a very nice frontis illustration and 9 nice title vignettes.
Estimate: (USD 350 - USD 500)
The books : Scarce 18th century French edition of this tale on Knights Errant by Comtesse d'Auneuil. A rare find in any condition!
The author: Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil, (1670 - 1730) was a French salonnière and author of fairy tales. She married the Comte d'Auneuil and established her standing in Paris and at court with a salon that was "open to all the beaux esprits and to all the women who wrote." Her fairy tale collection, La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed), playfully alludes to the pre-existing genre of fairy tales popular in her time. Her final work, Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier (The Knights Errant and the Familiar Genie), is divided into two sections, the first evoking chivalric romances and the second presenting a brief sequence of tales purportedly translated from Arabic.