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Famous letters, full of contemporary news and gossip on the city of Utrecht

[DUNOYER, Anne-Marguerite PETIT].
Lettres historiques et galantes, de deux dames de condition, dont l'une étoit à Paris, & l'autre en Province. Ouvrage curieux. Où l'on trouve les plans & la description de la ville d'Utrecht; une rélation de  ce qui s'y est passé de plus particulier pendant la  tenuë du congrès; avec les armes de tous les ambassadeurs.

With woodcut publisher's monogram on title, richly  engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plan and folding view of Utrecht, and 12 full-page engraved plates with the coats-of-arms of the delegates to the Peace Conference, held at Utrecht in 1713.

With woodcut publisher's monogram on title, richly  engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plan and folding view of Utrecht, and 12 full-page engraved plates with the coats-of-arms of the delegates to the Peace Conference, held at Utrecht in 1713.

With woodcut publisher's monogram on title, richly  engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plan and folding view of Utrecht, and 12 full-page engraved plates with the coats-of-arms of the delegates to the Peace Conference, held at Utrecht in 1713.

With woodcut publisher's monogram on title, richly  engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plan and folding view of Utrecht, and 12 full-page engraved plates with the coats-of-arms of the delegates to the Peace Conference, held at Utrecht in 1713.

With woodcut publisher's monogram on title, richly  engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plan and folding view of Utrecht, and 12 full-page engraved plates with the coats-of-arms of the delegates to the Peace Conference, held at Utrecht in 1713.



Cologne (= Amsterdam), Pierre Marteau, 1713. Small 8vo. Original vellum. With woodcut publisher's monogram on title, richly  engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plan and folding view of Utrecht, and 12 full-page engraved plates with the coats-of-arms of the delegates to the Peace Conference, held at Utrecht in 1713. (12), 468 pp.

One of several volumes of letters written by Mrs. Anne-Marguerite du Noyer, born Petit, who after an unhappy marriage travelled with her two daughters all over Europe. Voltaire, when visiting the Netherlands, fell in love with one of her young girls. These letters, full of contemporary news and gossip, became very famous.The present volume stands on its own, describing the city of Utrecht, and gossiping about the courtly adventures of Dutch politicians and of the numerous foreign delegates to the Peace Congress then held at Utrecht. It was published under the much used fictitious address of Pierre Marteau at Cologne.

Good copy.- (Some sl. browning; bookplate on upper pastedown; a few old owner's entries).
Gay Lemonnyer II, 840-842.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Courtesy Books  Erotica  Politics  Popular Books  Utrecht  Women 

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