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[CONSULAT] Magazin de littérature européenne ou recueil de pièces intéressantes, soit originales, soit traduites de l'allemand, de l'italien et de l'espagnol. Tome premier[CONSULATE] Magazine of European Literature, or a Collection of Interesting Pieces, either Original or Translated from German, Italian, and Spanish. Volume One]
s. n.|Paris 1802|13.9 x 20.5 cm|Relié
First illustrated edition, featuring at the end of the volume 12 charming hand-coloured copper engravings depicting fashionable hairstyles and costumes (10), as well as furniture (2).
Contemporary binding in half midnight-blue calf, smooth spine decorated with lozenge tools and gilt fillets, gilt tail ornament, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
The work is also illustrated with a portrait of Bonaparte as a frontispiece and one plate hors-texte.
Foxing, black ink stains to page 81.
This work, intended for an American readership, as stated in the Preface ("L'espèce de journal dont nous offrons ici le premier essai, ne contiendra que rarement
€2,500