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CUSTINE, Astolphe, marquis de.
The World as it is.
See original version (French)
98 - bis
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CUSTINE, Astolphe, marquis de.
The World as it is.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
CUSTINE, Astolphe, marquis de.
The World as it is.
Paris, Eugène Renduel, 1835.
2 volumes in-8, [4]-360 pp. and [4]-438 p., with wide margins. Contemporary glazed fawn half calf with corners, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt roulettes and fillets, cold fillets, gilt title and tomaison, gilt and brown fillets and roulettes, marbled endpapers and edges (some foxing, lacks at the top of the spines, slight wear, trace of label at the head of the first plate in volume 1, small lack in the lower margin of p. 167-8 in volume 1).
Unique edition of Custine's masterpiece, which caused controversy on its publication.
Black and realistic novel, also known as "Le monde tel qu'il est".
A satirical exploration of European society at the time, with sharp political observations on the culture and mores of a period of social tension - particularly in Russia, whose despotism he criticised.
Baudelaire considered him to be the inventor of the "character" of the ugly girl in literature. Scorned by Apponyi, "A picture of a society rotten to the core, a society without faith, without law, without belief, without remorse and without pleasure..." (Vingt-cinq ans à Paris, his memoirs).
Copy of the Duc d'Uzès.
Library of the Duc d'Uzès at the château de Bonnelles (Yvelines), with engraved ex libris and cold-stamped stamp on the false title.
Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès (1842-1872), soldier and politician, creator of the famous Bonnelles Rally. The château was built in 1849 for Duke Giraud d'Uzès by the architects Froelicher and Parent.
See original version (French)
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