Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/117
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    535 BRANCAS (MARIE DE MAUBEC, DUCHESSE DE). Daughter of Charles, Marquis de Maubec, and Wife of Louis de Brancas, Duke of Villars-Brancas (1661-1731). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THE REGENT. B°pps, 4to,, oi3th May, 1797. £2 10s The Duchess offers her youngest son, the Marquis d’Oisse, as the first Maitre d’Hotel in the Regent’s house as a sign of gratitude for the kindness shown to her. 530 BREGY (CHARLOTTE SAUMAISE DE CHAZAN, COMTESSE DE, 1019-1093). Beauty and Wit of the Court of Anne of Austria, Queen of France. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THE QUEEN OF POLAND (MARIE-LOUISE DE GONZAGUE). 2 pp., 4to. Paris, 3rd December (1648). £5 5s A fine letter congratulating the Queen on her marriage with her brother-in-law John Casimir. The latter had been a Jesuit and Cardinal and obtained special dispensation to marry the widow of his brother Wladislas VII., whom he succeeded. After the death of his wife in 1067 he abdicated and retired to the Abbaye of Saint-Germain-des- Prés. 537 BRINON (FRANCOISE MARIE, MADAME DE, died 1701). The first superior of the Maison de St. Cyr. She acted as medium between Bossuet and Leibnitz in the famous project for uniting the Protestants of Germany with the Roman Catholic Church. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO BOSSUET. 5 pages, 4to. 5th November, 1693. £10 10s Warmly recommending the good cause to her correspondent and urging him to spare no pains in order to arrive ata satisfactory result. Undoubtedly the “ good cause ”’ referred to in this letter was the project for unitimg the Protestants of Germany with the Roman Catholic Church.
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