Pierre-Philippe BAIGNOUX
Amélina, Godefroy et Augustin, ou Les Trois époques d'Haïti[Amélina, Godefroy and Augustin, or The Three Eras of Haiti]
R. Pornin |Tours 1844|13 x 22 cm|Relié
New edition, expanded from the novel entitled Amélina, épisode de la conquête et de la colonisation des Espagnols dans l'île d'Haïti (Tours, 1841), which comprised only the first narrative.
The following two, set respectively in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, are by a certain A***, who has not been identified.
Contemporary Romantic binding in full brown calf, smooth faded spine decorated with gilt Romantic arabesques, covers framed with gilt fillets and gilt Romantic arabesques, white moiré silk endpapers and pastedowns, corners bumped, gilt fillets to the board edges, all edges gilt.
Restorations to spine, a few minor spots of foxing.
...€500