[RICHELIEU Cardinal de] ANONYMOUS (FAUR Louis-François ou LA - Lot 163

[RICHELIEU Cardinal de] ANONYMOUS (FAUR Louis-François ou LA BORDE Jean-Benjamin de) : Vie du Maréchal de Richelieu, contenant ses amours et intrigues. By Buisson, Paris, 1791. First edition containing a large number of original letters and special memoirs written by Richelieu, or addressed to Richelieu. Complete with Mémoires secrets sur les règnes de Louis XIV et de Louis XIV by the late M. Duclos (3 ff.n.ch.). [474, 488 and 441 pages] Three volumes in-8, full basane, boards decorated with a triple border of gold edging, smooth spine decorated with irons, title on red leather and tomaison on green leather, light scattered foxing, an ex libris wetstamp on which the name Manessier can be distinguished.