SAINT-SIMON, Louis de Rouvroy. Mémoires complets et authenti - Lot 217

SAINT-SIMON, Louis de Rouvroy. Mémoires complets et authentiques du duc de Saint-Simon sur le siècle de Louis XIV et la Régence. Paris, Sautelet, 1829 - 1830. 21 volumes in-8, havana half-basin, spine ribbed with gilded fillets, brown title page and tomaison, mottled edges echoing the pattern on the endpapers. Approx. 400 pages per volume, one fold-out facsimile and plan, one engraved portrait. Common foxing. Minor wear to spines, some boards a little rubbed. First complete edition of the Duc de Saint-Simon's famous memoirs, a monument of 18th-century French literature. A well-bound copy, complete with the facsimile of the author's handwriting and his portrait by Villoin at the head of the twentieth volume, as well as the plan of the parliamentary chamber in the eleventh. A good copy from the library of Château du Tremblay (ex-bibliotheca on each flyleaf).