Joseph Hippolyte de SANTO DOMINGO
Tablettes romaines, contenant des faits, des anecdotes et des observations sur les moeurs, les usages, les cérémonies, le gouvernement de Rome. - Plaidoirie de M. de Santo Domingo, auteur des Tablettes romaines, devant la cour royale, audience solennelle
Chez tous les marchands de nouveautés • Chez Les principaux libraires|Paris 1824|13 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First edition of each volume.
Half bronze calf binding, smooth spine decorated with black and gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, joints rubbed, small lack to upper headcap, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers preserved for the first volume, speckled edges, contemporary Romantic binding.
A bibliophile's pen note about the work at the head of an endpaper.
We include the facsimile of a song virulently and racistly attacking the Count of Santo Domingo.
Half-title page shadowed due to the presence of a bookseller's descriptive slip, joints fragile.
Two bookplates pasted on a pastedown including that of Henri Rolland.
Half bronze calf binding, smooth spine decorated with black and gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, joints rubbed, small lack to upper headcap, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers preserved for the first volume, speckled edges, contemporary Romantic binding.
A bibliophile's pen note about the work at the head of an endpaper.
We include the facsimile of a song virulently and racistly attacking the Count of Santo Domingo.
Half-title page shadowed due to the presence of a bookseller's descriptive slip, joints fragile.
Two bookplates pasted on a pastedown including that of Henri Rolland.
€120