Author:
[ CHEVALIER D'ÉON / CHEVALIER D'EON ] Frédérick Gaillardet
Publication details:
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur, Palais-Royal, 17 et 19, Galerie d'Orléans.
Important work on one of the enigmas of the eighteenth century (1728-1810), an individual whose nature remains the subject of debate. 8vo. Pages: [4 +] xvi + 444. In original brown-leather half-binding, marble boards and endpapers, blue label on spine. In good condition. Binding worn and rubbed. Some foxing. Frontispiece consists of photographic reproduction of portrait of d'Eon by Kauffman after Latour. Subtitled 'La vérité sur les mysteres de sa vie d'après des documents authentiques suivis de douze lettres inédites de Beaumarchais'.
