AUBERY DU MAURIER, Louis. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire - Lot 251

AUBERY DU MAURIER, Louis. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Hollande et des autres provinces unies. Où l'on verra les veritables causes des Divisions qui sont depuis soixante ans dans cette République, & qui la menacent de ruine. Paris, Jean Villette, 1697. In-12, [22] ff, 482, [2] pp. red morocco, smooth ornate spine, green morocco t.p., wide gilt roulette on covers, gilt roulette on edges and chasses, gilt edges (19th century binding). These memoirs, which also touch on French foreign policy (notably Protestant), are a classic of Dutch history.ms. bookplate repeated from J. P. Gubbins, 1865; the bibliophilic note at the head is probably in his hand. From the library of Horace Woollaston Monckton (1857-1931, geologist and botanist), Inner Temple, dated 17. XII. 1883, with engraved label. Spine unstained and cracked.