Barthélemy BACHEVILLE
Voyages des frères Bacheville, capitaines de l'ex-garde, chevaliers de la Légion d'honneur, en Europe et en Asie, après leur condamnation par la cour prévôtale du Rhône, en 1816[Travels of the Bacheville Brothers, former Guard captains and Knights of the Legion of Honour, in Europe and Asia, after their condemnation by the Provost Court of the Rhône in 1816]
Corréard • Ponthieu • Imprimerie de David • Capitaine Bacheville|Paris 1822|12.8 x 21 cm|Relié
First edition illustrated with a lithographed portrait of the author by Langlumé as a frontispiece (cf. Atabey 45. See Blackmer 60 and Weber 105 for the enlarged second edition, published the same year with a different frontispiece).
Half cherry calf binding, spine with four raised bands framed with gilt garlands, decorated with blind and gilt tooling, gilt rolls at head and tail, black morocco title-piece, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing, blind-stamped ex-libris of Giannalisa Feltrinelli at foot of first endpaper. Repair to the outer margin of the last two leaves, not affecting the text.
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