Full Leather
1822 · Paris
by Vicomte [Francois-Rene] de Chateaubriand
Paris: Le Normant, 1822. Fourth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The set in three volumes, bound in tan calf, ruled in black to the perimeter of the boards with an interior floral roll; spine with gilt rules, decorative devices, and title lettered in gilt. The boards are ruled in gilt at their edges, and there is a decorative roll at the turn-ins; with brilliant green marbled endsheeps. Volume I with the large engraved folding map of "La Mer Mediterranee" by Pierre Lapie (51 x 79 cm), and Volume III with the folding facsimile of a contract in Arabic entered into in Jaffa between Chateaubriand and the captain of a "saique".~~The top of the front joint of Volume I is just starting but overall a handsome set.~. Very Good binding.
(Inventory #: 292759)