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(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS. Set of 6 works in 8 volumes.
See original version (French)
85
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(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS. Set of 6 works in 8 volumes.
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS. Set of 6 works in 8 volumes.
- Travel Sketches. A Year on the Banks of the San Joaquin and the Sacramento. Compiled from the accounts of an emigrant by Alexandre Dumas. Brussels, Alphonse Lebègue, 1852.
3 tomes in 1 in-16 volume, half-flamed sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, worn, rubbed corners, a few minor foxing spots.
Attached to the front: A signed autograph letter to Mr André Durand in Moulins. Undated. ½ p. in-8. He offers him a seat in his carriage ‘to come to Bourbon with us… We are going hunting; we are leaving in three quarters of an hour. ”
- Jacques Ortis. Preceded by an ‘Essay on the Life and Writings of Ugo Foscolo’ by Eugène de Montlaur and followed by an unpublished translation of selected works by M. L. Delatre. Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1842.
In-12, half-calf with corner pieces, double gilt bands on the covers, plain gilt spine, gilt monogram in the centre of the front cover.
[2 ff.], LII, 280 pp., [2 ff.]
An Italian ‘Werther’: This is a translation of Ugo Foscolo’s novel *Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis*, itself inspired by Goethe’s *Werther*: an unknown young poet falls in love with a young woman, Teresa, whom her father has destined for another man. As a dutiful daughter, she renounces the young man, who leaves her in despair and sets off to travel throughout Italy. There, he becomes imbued with a sense of national pride.
The patriotic spirit pervading this work surely inspired Dumas to make it known in France.
Pier-Angelo Fiorentino, author of the preface, whom Dumas had met in Naples, contributed to the translation of Ugo Foscolo’s epistolary novel.
- *Une maison de glace*. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1860.
2 volumes in one in-12 volume, red half-basane, smooth spine, title labels in black morocco, upper cap torn off, spine faded and cracked, corners worn, rare foxing.
[2 ff.], 326 pp.; [2 ff.], 300 pp.
- Une aventure d’amour. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1862.
12mo, porphyry half-basane with a smooth spine, speckled edges, lower cap rubbed, small superficial scuff, scattered foxing.
[2 ff.], 274 pp., [1 f.]
- *La Bouillie de la comtesse Berthe*. Paris, Calmann Lévy, n.d.
12mo, green half-basane, spine with faded raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets.
[2 ff.], 242 pp.
- Les Blancs et les Bleus. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1867.
3 volumes in 12, half-percale with burgundy corners, spine with 4 unmarked raised bands.
[2 ff.], 305 pp.; [2 ff.], 323 pp.; [2 ff.], 263 pp.
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