Deux-Ponts

New edition, revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged.

Contemporary bindings in half mottled fawn calf over corners, smooth spines gilt with fillets, morocco title and volume labels, brown paper-covered boards, sprinkled edges.

Some minor rubbing to the spines, a few corners slightly bumped.

L'Esprit des lois occupies volumes I to IV; La Défense de l'Esprit des lois volume V (with a general index); Lettres persanes volume VI; volume VII gathers the Considérations and related pieces; volume VIII contains the posthumous works.

This collected edition of Montesquieu's works offers no particular bibliographical peculiarities in its...

Autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire, written in ink and addressed to his mother. A few underlinings, deletions, and authorial corrections.
This letter was first published in Charles Baudelaire, Dernières lettres inédites à sa mère in 1926.
Former collection of Armand Godoy, no. 197.

A precious letter from Baudelaire's Brussels period, during the poet's voluntary exile at the end of his life.

« Il est douteux que j'habite quelque part à Paris. Je crois que j'habiterai surtout une voiture dans laquelle je ferai, si je peux, toutes mes courses en un ou deux jours. » Haunted by...

New Deux-Ponts edition of the works of Statius.
Bound in slightly later Bradel-style boards, navy blue. Smooth spine with fillets. Red morocco title label. Rubbing to head and tail, edges and corners. Cut to foot of p. 25. Handsome copy.
Life of Statius by Giraldi. Index by Fabricius Ernestinus. Publius Papinius Statius was a Latin poet born in Naples in the 1st century AD; the 3 works that remain to us are the Silvae, the Thebaid and the Achilleid, which are 2 epic poems. His popularity led to his appearance in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Autograph letter signed in black ink, addressed to his mother and dated “Sunday morning the 14th.” A few underlinings, deletions and corrections by the author.
Formerly in the collection of Armand Godoy, n°188.
A fading Baudelaire: “The state of disgust in which I find myself makes everything seem even worse.”
Drawn by the promise of epic fame, Baudelaire went to Belgium in April 1864 for a few conferences and in the hope of a fruitful meeting with the publishers of Les Misérables, Lacroix and Verboeckhoven. The meeting didn't...