MAUBERT DE GOUVEST: Testament Politique du... - Lot 23 - Vermot et Associés

MAUBERT DE GOUVEST: Testament Politique du Cardinal Jules Alberoni. Collected from various Memoirs, Letters and Interviews of His Eminence. By Monsignor A.M. Translated from the Italian, by C. de R.B.M.. Lausanne, Bousquet, 1753. In-12 contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and ornamented (snagged head cover). First edition. Apocryphal will of Cardinal Giulio Alberoni (1664-1752). Joseph-Marie Durey de Morsan (1717-1795), "after having collected numerous documents relating to the cardinal in Madrid, recast them and gave them the title Testament. On a trip to Holland, he showed his manuscript to Maubert de Gouvest, who, while saying the work would make a fortune, gave only twenty écus for it, and published it with his initials (M.D.G.)" (Michaud).