LA FAYETTE (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de - Lot 59

LA FAYETTE (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de). Oeuvres. Amsterdam & Paris, Hotel Serpente, 1786. 8 vol. in-12, green morocco, ornate smooth spines, triple gilt fillet on covers, gilt fillet on edges, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). First complete and collected edition of Madame de La Fayette's works, which appeared individually during her lifetime (1634-1693) and in subsequent decades, but had never been brought together before. It is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. Zayde, histoire espagnole, précédée d'un traité sur l'origine des romains occupies volumes 1 to 3; La princesse de Clèvres, volumes 4 and 5; La princesse de Montpensier, volume 6; les mémoires de la cour de France pour les années 1688 & 1689, volume 7 and l'histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre, première femme de Philippe de France, Duc d'Orléans, volume 8. A precious copy in contemporary morocco.