79/2297 Fortelle, de la. Het staats- krygs-kundig en byzonder leven van mademoiselle C. d'Eon; Tot in den Jare 1777 bekend by den naam van den Heer d'Eon; Ridder van de Koningl. Militaire Orde van St. Louis; Kapitein der Dragonderen; Envoyé en Secretaris van Ambassade in Rusland en Engeland; en eindelyk Minister-Plenipot aan 't Hof van Groot-Brittanie, enz. Dutch transl. Utr., H. van Emenes, 1779, X,(2),212p., engr. frontisp. portrait, orig. printed boards.

- New endpapers. Rebacked; sl. soiled.

= Scheepers II, 921. The famous Charles d'Eon de Beaumont, who supposedly first disguised himself as a woman during a mission to the Russian court. Ever since that occasion discussions arose as to his sex, culminating in a court action raised before Lord Mansfield in 1777 by which D'Eon was declared a female. Rare.