Jean de PONTEVÈS DE SABRAN
L'Inde à fond de train. Publication accompagnée de neuf dessins de l'auteur, de six phototypies et d'un itinéraire[India by Express Train. Published with Nine Drawings by the Author, Six Collotype Plates, and a Route Map]
Société anonyme de publications périodiques|Paris 1886|17.2 x 22.7 cm|Relié
First edition, apparently privately printed at the author's expense, illustrated with 15 full-page plates and a folding map (Cf. Lorenz XII, 830).
Contemporary Bradel binding in full paper-covered boards with a gilt tortoiseshell pattern, smooth spine slightly sunned, navy blue shagreen lettering-piece, minor rubbing to the head and foot of the spine, brown endpapers and pastedowns, blind-stamped rules to the board edges, corners lightly bumped, bookplate mounted on the front pastedown, contemporary binding.
A few light spots of foxing.
Count Jean de Pontevès-Sabran, major in the 3rd Cuirassiers Regiment, was born at the Château de Grignols (Gironde) in...
€650