Antoine de BERTIN

First edition illustrated with 2 engraved plates of this rare anonymous collection of poems, recently and definitively attributed to the poet from Réunion Antoine de Bertin (1752-1790), and believed to constitute his earliest works (cf. Seth, Poète créoles, 304. Ryckebusch, Bibliographie… Réunion, 750. Conlon 71: 879.)

Contemporary-style half black sheep with corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind, comb-marbled paper boards, some rubbing to the covers, corners bumped, modern binding.

They were never included in subsequent editions of his Œuvres complètes.

Bertin alludes to his island in his “Vers à Jeannette. A l'Orient” (p. 68): « …Mais aur

Edition on laid paper illustrated with a frontispiece and its duplicate suite by Desenne engraved by Blanchard.
Contemporary binding in half dark blue straight-grained Russia leather, smooth spine decorated with three gilt cross tools with coral morocco inlays, blind-stamped rosettes, gilt fillets worked in arabesques, edition date in coral morocco roundel, binder's signature at foot, marbled paper boards, pastedowns and endpapers, retaining its deckled edges, signed binding by Brigandat.
Leading edges rubbed with paper loss, corners slightly bumped, some foxing.
Publisher's autograph inscription. Jean-Marie Bernicat's bookplate pasted to front pastedown./

Illustrated with a frontispiece and its duplicate suite by Desenne engraved by Blanchard.
Half morocco binding with straight-grained red leather, spine with five false raised bands decorated with blind tooling, gilt fillets, compartments and rolls, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards. Binding signed Thouvenin. Joints cracked at head and paper slightly faded on upper portion of boards.
Some very discrete foxing, without consequence, otherwise a good copy.