[ROUZET DE FOLMON (Jacques-Marie). Explanation of the enigma - Lot 204

[ROUZET DE FOLMON (Jacques-Marie). Explanation of the enigma of the novel entitled: Histoire de la Conjuration de Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orléans [...]. Veredishtad, les Marchands de nouveautés, no date [ca. 1814]. 3 parts in 4 vol. in-8° of 220 pp. ; viij, 296 pp. ; viij, 359 pp. ; xxvij, 1 bl., 387, 1 bl., [5] pp. green half-bassane, long romantic spine, gilt title and tom. speckled edges (contemporary binding). Very rare" (Quérard) first edition of this refutation of Galard de Montjoye's Histoire de la Conjuration de L.P.J. d'Orléans. "No copy of this book printed at the expense of the Duchess of Orléans before 1814 was distributed during her lifetime" (Tourneux). From the library of Emmanuel RAMIERE DE FORTANIER & Catherine de BOISSESON, with their engraved bookplate. Ref : Quérard VIII, 258 ; Brunet, II, 1136 ; Tourneux, Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la Révolution française, IV, 21572. Small marginal wetness at the head of the first ff. of the 1st vol. without affecting the text, a few browned leaves. A good copy.