Victor Palmé

First edition of the French translation illustrated with a map, black engravings mostly in the text and 4 color plates.
Publisher's polychrome boards, smooth spine decorated with blind compartments as well as black and gilt fillets and two crossed gilt flags, first cover illustrated with an Arabesque design and two crossed gilt flags, all edges gilt, white watered silk endpapers and pastedowns.
Some foxing principally at beginning and end of volume.

First edition.
Half mustard yellow shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with blind-tooled compartments, black morocco title and volume labels, gilt date at foot, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt on deckled edges. Some very slight rubbing to headcaps, corners and on title and volume labels.
Reading marks in blue pencil in margins of the last three pages.
Autograph inscription signed by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly "à Monsieur Charles Buet / écriture déguisée pour cette plume moderne, mais sentiment vrai toujours".
Provenance: from the library of P. Tissot with his stamp...

First illustrated edition with 5 chromolithographs, one color map, all pages within a wide engraved border featuring marine scenes, landscapes, monuments... The effect of these borders is quite extraordinary when one further considers that they are renewed on each page.
Publisher's binding in half red shagreen bound by Engel and richly decorated with two special plates, a repeated ornament at head and foot, scattered stars throughout and thick and thin fillets. Special gilt plate created by Souze, an anchor in the foreground, caravels on the sea and the setting sun in which the American continent appears. The same plate is found on the back without the title. Traces of rubbing at the...

The first edition, published in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Revue du Monde catholique.
Manuscript gift inscription on the first endpaper, an angular lack at the head of the second cover.
Rare.

First edition in French. Introduction by Auguste Roussel.
A tear with slight lack at head of first cover, occasional foxing affecting essentially the very first and very last pages.
Rare.

First edition.
Half blonde calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, coat of arms at foot, black morocco title label, joints and headcaps rubbed, marbled paper doublures and endpapers, engraved bookplate of Château de Sassy pasted to verso of front board.
Work dedicated to his brothers the workers by Delaporte in the aftermath of the bloody repression of the Commune.
Very rare.

First edition.
One small nick without lack to foot of a joint.