Ernest Poret de BLOSSEVILLE
Histoire de la colonisation pénale et des établissements de l'Angleterre en Australie[History of England’s Penal Colonization and Settlements in Australia]
Imprimerie de Auguste Hérissey|Évreux 1859|13.3 x 21.3 cm|2 volumes reliés
Second edition, partly original as it was revised and substantially expanded (cf. Ferguson 7152a; Lacassagne 47).
Half black shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt rules and double gilt panels, boards framed with a single blind rule over marbled paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, period bindings.
A few minor spots.
This second edition was issued simultaneously either in a single volume with continuous pagination or in two volumes with separate pagination (our copy, see Ferguson 7152).
Bénigne-Ernest Poret, Marquis de Blosseville (1799–1886), was a legitimist politician and man of letters. He was active in politic
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