Livorno

Very rare first edition, with only one copy listed in WorldCat.

Contemporary half vellum binding with small corners, smooth spine, brown morocco title label with losses, marbled paper boards.

Some foxing and light staining to the title page.

The work lists and quantifies commercial exchanges with various regions of Italy, as well as with France, Spain, America, Russia, the Levant, and others.

First edition.

Full blue percaline binding, smooth spine gilt with a central floral motif, date and double gilt rules at foot, brown shagreen title label with minor scuffing along the left edge, original wrappers preserved, slightly later binding signed in blind by Pierson.

Ink initials on the front endpaper and upper wrapper, serving as an ex-libris.

A handsome copy, tastefully bound by Pierson and virtually free of foxing.

First edition, with three folding tables printed within the text. The title-page bears the false imprint of Yverdon; modern bibliography establishes that the book was in fact printed in Leghorn. XII, 196 pp. Brunet III, 330; Vivien de Saint-Martin, Voyages faits en Asie Mineure depuis le XIIIe siècle, no. 148; Atabey, The Ottoman World, 1126; Weber II, 595. Not in Blackmer, but see nos. 1530 and 1531.

Contemporary half brown calf with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt lyre tools and ornamental rolls, black morocco lettering-piece, speckled paper...

First edition illustrated with 6 plates, depicting a close-up view of the statue of Bolivar and the four bas-reliefs.

Contemporary green half sheep over marbled boards, smooth spine ruled in gilt with triple fillets, rubbing to spine, covers framed with a gilt roll, minor abrasions to boards, wear to edges, corners bumped.

Scattered foxing.

First edition, with no edition statement.
Contemporary half chocolate shagreen bindings, spines with raised bands; marbled paper boards, with laid paper endpapers and pastedowns. Spines evenly lightened. Edges rubbed. Wear to headcaps and bands. A few spots of foxing, notably on the fore-edge. A good copy.
Without doubt, just after The Man Who Laughs, Hugo’s greatest novelistic achievement, depicting on the island of Guernsey the struggle of a solitary man against the ocean.