Huet Pierre-Daniel - Memoires de Hollande - 1684

Huet Pierre-Daniel

Memoirs of Hollande

In Paris
1678

At Estienne Michallet

The exciting love story of a beautiful Jewish woman from Amsterdam with a younger brother of the Lusignano house.

After careful studies and research, it has been verified that the proposed volume is identical to the copy kept at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and therefore is the extremely rare original edition.
In the same year, at least three more editions were printed—unauthorized copies of the first.
Reference: GRAESSE IV 475 - BRUNET III 1596

Published anonymously in 1678, the
'Memoires d’Hollande' were the subject of a nineteenth-century debate on attribution.
which has often been compared to Madame de La Fayette (Tchemerzine III, 846) or to
Sandras de Courtilz, the work is said to have been written by Pierre-Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches (Lever, La Fiction narrative en prose au XVIIe siècle, 1976, p. 263).
The discussions quickly turned into a fight among scholars, the fiercest there has been, according to many critics.

In a very elegant style, the novel tells the love story of a beautiful Jewish woman from Amsterdam with a younger brother of the House of Lusignano.
The work is very interesting for more than one reason: it describes, through the love novel, life in the Netherlands around the middle of the seventeenth century; it is one of the few novels of the seventeenth century that dares to confront social reality as it is, and the work deserves to be recognized in the invention of French Romantic literature.
The book is also of interest for the history and topography of the Netherlands.

A superb contemporary full-leather binding, perfectly preserved.

In excellent condition, the interior preservation is also outstanding, with fresh, clean, and untouched documents.
Beautiful brand with an armillary sphere on the frontispiece.
Small antique stamp (nobility?) on the rear paste-down as shown in the numerous accompanying photos that are an integral part of the description and which you are invited to study carefully. Please also preserve the original endpapers.

Excellent copy, complete and original in every respect.
Collected and complete.

Pages: (4), 224 pp.
Dimensions: in twelfths - 140x80 millimetres

Shipment in suitable rigid packaging to protect the book during shipping. Please review the attached photos, which are an integral part of the present description.