Item #9272 Historical Memoirs of Stephanie Louise de Bourbon Conti. Anne Louise Francoise Billet, Stephanie Louise de Bourbon Conti.
Historical Memoirs of Stephanie Louise de Bourbon Conti
Historical Memoirs of Stephanie Louise de Bourbon Conti
Historical Memoirs of Stephanie Louise de Bourbon Conti
Historical Memoirs of Stephanie Louise de Bourbon Conti

Historical Memoirs of Stephanie Louise de Bourbon Conti

New Bern (NC): No publisher (Francois Xavier Martin), 1801. First American edition. Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Good. Item #9272

1st American edition. A Good copy. 16mo., 172 pp. Bound in full period tree calf, with title on a red morocco label on the spine. Leaves clean with a few minor fox spots, front joint starting, names on front and rear end papers. A nice example of an Early North Carolina Imprint. *** Shaw and Shoemaker, Early American Imprints 192 and 873. Thornton 8394. Publisher not listed, but thought to be Francois Xavier Martin, who emigrated from France before the Revolution, and set up a Print shop in New Bern. These Memoirs of the Princess Bourbon-Conti are her reminisces of the French Revolution, still under way in France when the 1st French edition was printed in 1798.

Price: $700.00