Xavier MARMIER

First edition.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots and ornamented with triple black and gilt compartments, light rubbing to joints, blue paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped.
Autograph inscription signed by Xavier Marmier: "A Mr le Cte de Tourgueneff". X.M.", the "M" having been slightly trimmed by the binder.
Provenance: from the library of Count Tourgueneff with his bookplate pasted on a pastedown.
This refers either to Alexandre Tourgueneff, historian and specialist in the dissemination of holy scriptures, or to his brother Nicolas, pioneer of serf emancipation. Both, broad and liberal minds, sojourned in France at this time.

New edition, published one year after the first.
Half blue shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with gilt compartments, gilt initials at foot, marbled paper boards slightly and marginally discolored, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light rubbing to corners, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.

New edition of the French translation, the latter by Xavier Marmier and preceded by a notice of the translator.
Contemporary binding in half black shagreen, back smoothes decorated with blind fillets and golden, golden tail frieze, friction marks on the back and a hooked tail, flat black cardboard, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, small rips on the cuts, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph signed Xavier Marmier the Princess Murat: "To the Duchess of Elchingen, tribute translator".
Copy virtually free of freckles.

First edition.
Half sheep binding with bronze coloring, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and friezes showing small stains and traces of rubbing.
Copy almost free from foxing.

First edition.
Half olive cloth binding, smooth spine, original wrappers preserved.

New edition of the French translation.
A small lack at foot of spine, one joint cracked at foot.
Peddler's stamp on half-title page.
Rare.

New edition of the French translation by Xavier Marmier.
Binding half black shagreen, back with four nerves set with double gilt fillets decorated with black and gold boxes, fielt golden framing of marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, corners bumped.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed Xavier Marmier to Mr Gayot.
Some minor foxing.

First edition of the French translation and introduction by Xavier Marmier.
A clear dampstain also affecting the margins throughout the text block, occasional foxing.

First edition of this offprint from a history journal whose origin we have been unable to establish.
Our article is presented following that of Arthur Dinaux concerning the ordeal by boiling water, a judicial recourse in use during the Middle Ages.
Rare.