- COURTILZ DE SANDRAS (Gatien de). Memoirs of Mr. L. C. D. R. [le Comte de Rochefort], containing what happened in particular during the ministry of Cardinal de Richelieu, and Cardinal Mazarin. With several remarkable particularities of the reign of Louis the Great. Fifth edition, revised & corrected. The Hague, Hendrik Van Bulderen, 1713, in 12, [4] ff. (title, preface), 448 pp. in small type, brown calf, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, fawn title, spotted with red (contemporary binding). A good copy. As for other compositions by Sandras, it is a historical novel mixing invention and snippets of facts. The success was prodigious judging by the number of printings since the original of 1687: 1688, 1692, 1689, 1691, 1694, 1696, 1710 ... SHF, Bourgeois & André, 732. 100/150 - DELAVIGNE (Casimir). Derniers chants. Poems and ballads on Italy. Preceded by a notice by Germain Delavigne. Paris, Didier, 1845, in 8°, [3] ff. n. ch. (false-title, title, dedication), XXXVII-312 pp. with 2 lithographed plates under serpents, including a portrait-frontispice, half-basin with bottle morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, framed with simple gilt fillet on the embossed green cloth covers. Bound in contemporary style (corners damaged). Posthumous first edition, the beloved poet of the Romantic period having died in 1843. Copy from the cabinet of Prince Moritz von Dietrichstein (1775-1864), the former governor of the Duke of Reichstadt, with handwritten bookplate.