Lettres De Messire Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy…Avec Les Responses. 5 Vols.

Nouvelle edition, ou l’on a infere les trois volumes de Nouvelles Lettres publiez en 1709, & range toutes les lettres selon leur ordre chronologique. Presumed contemporary brown calf; raised bands; raised spine decorations; spine lettering black-stamped on red spine coffer; marbled endpapers. 6 (Avertissement) + 6 (Index) + 360; 6 (Index) + 374; 8 (Index) + 390; 8 (Index) + 376; 8 (Index) + 375 pp. Engraved title vignettes; some tailpieces; frontispiece portrait engraving of de Rabutin. Extremities lightly rubbed; slight shelf-wear; and a couple of boards slightly bowed (probably from shrinking leather); but interiors remarkably bright & clean. Le Comte de Bussy-Rabotin (1618-1693) had a distinguished military career as a lieutenant-general of the French armies, but ended up in the Bastille after taking part in a Parisian orgy during Holy Week.