Royal Lovers and Mistresses

by Angelo Solomon Rappoport

" HB Very Good Place of London Privately Printed for the Navarese Society Limited 1924 limited edition This is a biographical survey of kings, queens, their mistresses and loves. With 6 illustrations in photogravure and 13 other engravings. Bound in the original violet boards with a gold medallion and crown at the center; no DJ; spine is sunned, but gilt title and decoration are visible; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; Frontispiece of Christina of Sweden; hinges good; yellowing of pastedown, flyleaves, and endpapers; foxing in some of the pages. This is a rare copy of a limited edition. CONTENTS include among Uncrowned Kings and Queens; La Belle Corisande; Gabrielle d'Estrées; Henriette d'Entragues; A Mary Magdalene of the Eighteenth Century; The Venetian Dancer and the Great Frederick; A German Pompadour; Countess Maria Aurora Koenigsmark and Augustus the Strong of Saxony; The Romance of a Handsome Shepherd; The Platonic Affection of a Tsar, etc. History, Biography, King, Queen, Mistress, Courtesan No. of 306pp

306 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 2011

About the author

Angelo Solomon Rappoport (1871-1950)
Also published as A.S. Rappoport