The rare original edition of the Mémoires de d’Artagnan
from which Alexandre Dumas wrote The Three Musketeers.
Beautiful copy preserved in its period binding.
[Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien]. Mémoires de Mr d’Artagnan, Capitaine-Lieutenant de la First Company of Musketeers of the King, Containing many particular and secret things that happened under the Reign of Louis the Great.
Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1700.
3 volumes in 3 in-12 volumes of: I/ (3) ff., 440 pp.; II/ (1) f., 497 pp., (1) blank p.; III/ (1) f., 492 pp. Marginal tear without loss on p. 271 of the 2nd volume. Full blond calf, spine with raised bands decorated, title and volume number pieces in red morocco, gilded roulette on the cuts, red speckled edges. Binding of the period.
164 x 92 mm.
Rare original edition of these Memoirs from which Dumas will write
