[Auguste-François-Louis-Scipion de Grimoard Beauvoir du Roure]
L'Art historique, poëme en quatre chants. [The Art of History, a Poem in Four Cantos]
Chez Maradan • Et chez Labitte|Paris 1822|13 x 20.5 cm|Relié
Rare first edition of this collection of poetry by a member of the Société des Bibliophiles français, issued in a very small number of copies and absent from non-European libraries.
Contemporary half red morocco, title gilt to the spine decorated with long gilt tools, boards covered in embossed paper, marbled pebble-pattern edges, endpapers and pastedowns.
Brown ink inscription by the author on the half-title, very likely to his son-in-law Joseph Maurice Le Sage d’Hauteroche, husband of his daughter Antoinette Denise: “a gift to Monsieur le Comte d’Hauteroche by the Marquis du Roure”. (our own translation)
Light scattered foxing.
Small contemporary correction in brown ink on p. 96, “siècle” struck through and replaced with “âge”.
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