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Alexandre DUMAS. *Saphir*. A precious stone set by… Paris, C…
See original version (French)
43
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Alexandre DUMAS. *Saphir*. A precious stone set by… Paris, C…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
Alexandre DUMAS. *Saphir*. A precious stone set by… Paris, Coulon-Pineau, 1854.
In-12, burgundy half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons in embossed squares.
[2 ff.], 242 pp., [3 ff.] (catalogue).
First edition.
A volume from the ‘Bibliothèque du Mousquetaire’ series. The text had appeared in instalments that same year in Dumas’s newspaper, *Le Mousquetaire*.
An adaptation of whimsical satirical short stories by his friend, the Viennese ‘counsellor and poet’ Moïse Saphir, who ‘has wit like the Germans when they have it, that is to say, like four witty Frenchmen. ”
Vicaire III, 402; Talvart, 129; Munro, 269.
Spine worn, water-stain on the first and last leaves.
See original version (French)
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