Author: BRANTHÔME (SIC!) - THEODOR RITTER VON RIBA,
Title: Das Leben der galanten Damen. Translated, after the original french, and introduced by Theodor Ritter von Riba.
Description: Berlin, Wilhelm Borngräber, [..], 1919. sm.thick 8°. orig. pict. & lettered cloth. hftitle(verso blank)403pp. frontisp., 4 other plates, publ. list on [2]pp. at end of volume. This german translation is an abridged edn. of the Memoirs of Pierre de Bourdeilles Brantôme, c.1540-1614, who led an adventurous and roaming life up till a fall from his horse that made him an invalid. He then wrote and published his memoirs; this german translation deals with his adventures with fancy french ladies of high birth, and supplies interesting information on life, customs & fashions of those days. A good copy. (light soiling to bds., corners somewh. damaged, large ex-libris pasted-in on recte of first blank).

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