François René de CHATEAUBRIAND

With a frontispiece portrait of the author after Girodet, two portraits and 25 engraved plates after Alfred and Tony Johannot, Rouargue, Régnier, Pourvoyeur, etc., as well as a large folding map. This copy complete with the Congrès de Vérone, which makes up the two final volumes and is often missing from this edition.
Romantic binding of half green Russia, spine richly gilt, green honeycomb-patterned paper covers.
Spotting, as usual.
A very good copy in an elegant, strictly contemporary, Romantic binding.

Collective edition complete works in 25 volumes in Furne & Gosselin. Original edition for The Life of Rance in Delloye. The original edition to the grave Memoirs of Eugene Victor & Sheepish.
Binders half fir sorrow, back with four false nerves decorated with triple boxes stamped cold and cold-nets of heads and tails, paper plates to the tank, guards and contreplats combed lined paper, and crowned armorial bookplate Charles-François Ferand (of Gerard Arcjehan) engraved and pasted the first contreplat of each volume, binders of the time.
The 25 volumes of the complete works are enriched, frontispiece, Chateaubriand portrait from Girodet and 28...

New edition, one of 300 numbered copies on ordinary paper.
Endpapers faded, internally good.

First edition.
Half black morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Our copy expanded with a mounted autograph note that does not appear to be in the author's hand: "A Madame, Madame la comtesse Charles de Goutaud, rue Louis le Grand n°23", dated December 1821. This note is found on the back of an invitation to the blessing of the new chapel of the Infirmerie Marie-Thérèse. Céleste de Chateaubriand, the author's wife, had founded this hospital in 1819, an institution whose mission was to welcome elderly priests and noble women who had become widows during the Revolution. Located on rue Denfert, at number...

First edition.
Reliure half caramel morocco over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, gilt date, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
A little light spotting, not serious.

First edition.
Contemporary half brown sheep over marbled paper boards, decorated with blacks fillets, with slight tears, not serious, over marbled paper boards.
Occasional foxing.

Edition illustrated with original color illustrations in-text and full-page, one of 380 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only issue with 120 on Japan paper.
Small tear to margin of front cover not affecting the text leaves.
Rare copy.

First edition.
Copy in its original wrappers under plain covers.
Small lacks to the unlettered spine, light tears, creases and lacks to the boards.
One autograph correction on page 35.

Illustrated with steel engravings.
A light corner dampstain affecting the first pages, some minor foxing.