![[MURAT, Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de (1670-1716)]. Les contes des fées. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1698. 12° (156 x 76mm). Engraved and woodcut ornaments. (Some soiling, D2r with two small ink stains, F2 with closed tear into two bottom lines of text.) Later red morocco, single gilt fillet border to covers and spine compartments, gilt edges (spine darkened). Provenance: Edouard Moura (ex libris) -- purchased from Librería A. Manier in 1936. FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 1948.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08358_0300_000(murat_henriette-julie_de_castelnau_comtesse_de_les_contes_des_fees_par115939).jpg?w=1)
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[MURAT, Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de (1670-1716)]. Les contes des fées. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1698. 12° (156 x 76mm). Engraved and woodcut ornaments. (Some soiling, D2r with two small ink stains, F2 with closed tear into two bottom lines of text.) Later red morocco, single gilt fillet border to covers and spine compartments, gilt edges (spine darkened). Provenance: Edouard Moura (ex libris) -- purchased from Librería A. Manier in 1936. FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 1948.
AULNOY, Marie-Catherine-Jumelle de Berneville, comtesse d' (1650-1705). Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne. The Hague: Adrian Moetjens, 1691. 2 volumes in one, 12° (144 x 81mm). Woodcut ornaments. Citron morocco by Bretault, gilt spine and turn-ins, old woven silk free endpapers preserved, later gilt supralibros, uncut. Provenance: Henry Houssaye (ex-libris, and with a note in his hand: 'Les contregardes de la reliure sont en soie ancienne') -- Hector de Backer (lot 1003 in his 1926 sale by L. Giraud-Badin, where purchased). Madame d'Aulnoy's Mémoires, covering the years 1679-81, were largely a plagiarism first published in Paris, 1690. Brunet I, 569. (2)
AULNOY, Marie-Catherine-Jumelle de Berneville, comtesse d' (1650-1705). Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne. The Hague: Adrian Moetjens, 1691. 2 volumes in one, 12° (144 x 81mm). Woodcut ornaments. Citron morocco by Bretault, gilt spine and turn-ins, old woven silk free endpapers preserved, later gilt supralibros, uncut. Provenance: Henry Houssaye (ex-libris, and with a note in his hand: 'Les contregardes de la reliure sont en soie ancienne') -- Hector de Backer (lot 1003 in his 1926 sale by L. Giraud-Badin, where purchased). Madame d'Aulnoy's Mémoires, covering the years 1679-81, were largely a plagiarism first published in Paris, 1690. Brunet I, 569. (2)