Grafigny, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, Paris, 1797, 2 volumes, blue morocco gilt by Simier, Béraldi copy

Grafigny, Françoise, Madame de

Lettres d'une Péruvienne... nouvelle édition. Paris: P. Didot l'aîné, 1797

2 volumes, 18mo (151 x 88mm.), one of 100 copies on papier vélin, half-titles, frontispiece portrait by de Launay, 8 plates by Lefevre in 2 states (additional eaux-fortes, slightly shorter, and avant lettre), contemporary straight-grained blue morocco gilt by Simier, spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges, occasional light foxing

First issue, with the PD monogram on the title-page.

LITERATURE:

Cohen-De Ricci 447-448 (mentioning this copy)

PROVENANCE:

Henri Beraldi, booklabel, sale, Paris, 1934, lot 101 ("superbe exemplaire"); Aimé Laurent, booklabel