Auguste LUCHET
Souvenirs de Jersey. Guide du voyageur français dans cette île
[Memories of Jersey. A Guide for the French Traveller to the Island]
Chez tous les libraires • Ph.-J. Ouless|Saint-Hélier s. d. [1845]|10.3 x 16.8 cm|Broché
Rare first edition of this curious work recalling the voluntary exile to Jersey of the man of letters Auguste Luchet (1806–1872).
Only two copies recorded in the Catalogue collectif de France (BnF and Avranches).
From 1842 to 1847 the author chose to leave France rather than serve the two-year prison sentence to which he had been condemned: his novel "Le Nom de famille" had led him to appear, together with his publisher Hippolyte Souverain, before the Assize Court jury on 10 March 1842 for "excitation à la haine et au mépris du gouvernement et provocation à la haine de classes".
Slight corner losses to spine and boards, without consequence; faint water-stain on the opening leaves.
€1,250