La Pucelle d'Orleans. Poeme en vingt-un Chants

Paris An VII (1799): Crapelet Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With an engraved portrait and 21 copperplates.xiii, (1), 223; (4), 243 pp. Two volumes bound in half green morocco over marbled boards, gilt back with crown and sword in four compartments, marbled end papers,all edges gilt. Very Good Plus, light edge wear, extensive light pencil bookseller notations in both French and English verso front marbled end paper, giving references for this work. With the armorial bookplates of Victor Duc de Saint-Simon Vermandois, second Spanish Duke of Saint-Simon, and confirmed as a peer of France by Louis XVIII in 1819 (though with the rank of marquis, not duke). He served as ambassador first in Lisbon, then in Copenhagen, before being named Governor-General of the French colonial possessions in India, based in Pondichéry, in 1834. He did not start using the ducal title until the 1840s. which dates this binding from 1840 to 1865, when he died. A Scarce edition, which incorporates the plates of the Didot edition of 1795 but without the frames. Voltaire's notorious bawdy parody of the life of French national heroine Joan of Arc, with the risque and erotic illustrations all present. Cohen-Ricci II, 1034.