LA PRINCESSE DE WOLFENBUTTEL TWO VOLUMES
Chez Demonville, 1806. Item #3146
DE MONTOLIEU, Isabelle. LA PRINCESSE DE WOLFENBUTTEL. In Two Volumes. Paris: Chez Demonville, 1806. 24mos., tan full tree-calf leather; black titles & gilt stamping on spines. First French Edition? De Montolieu [1751-1832] was a Swiss novelist and translator of more than 100 volumes. She wrote the first French translation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" and "Persuation." This edition is a French translation of "Die Prinzessin von Wolfenbuttel by Heinrich Zschokke. The book is founded upon a written history of Charlotte Christina Sophia of Wolfenbutte, wife of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia. She was also the great aunt of Marie Antoinette. About fifty years after her death, a legend developed that she did not die in 1715 and, instead of her corpse, a wooden doll was placed in her coffin. The legend says she fled to Louisiana and married a French officer named d'Auban and then moved to Paris and the island of Bourbon, where her husband died. Each volume has the armorial bookplate of Thomas Munro- believed to be that of Major-General Sir Thomas Monro (1761-1827)- an East India Army officer and statesman. With "Dread God" and the family's armorial crest on each bookplate. Very Good (little wear spines; contents clean & tight but a former ink name has been clipped from the top of each front endpaper and lower edge of each title page). Rare! $350.00.
Price: $350.00