Découverte de l'Amerique par les Normands au Xe siècle.
first edition
1874 · Rouen
by Gravier, Gabriel.
Rouen: Esperance Caniard, 1874. First Edition. Very Good. 24cm; xxxix, [1], 250, [2] pages, one double-page plate of petroglyphs and 3 maps. Bound in 20th-century two-tone morocco, with raised bands on spine. Very unusual endpapers of gold-fleck and white "tangled thread" pattern on a deep black ground. Original wraps bound in. Inscribed by Gravier to General Felix G. Girard-Pinsonnière, a friend of his father's. (Very light dampmark; two marginal closed tears repaired. Raised bands scuffed.)
Inscribed by the author (Inventory #: 2538)
Inscribed by the author (Inventory #: 2538)