Six mois en Russie. Lettres écrites à M. X.-B. Saintines en 1826, à l'époque du couronnement de S.M. l'Empereur

First edition of these travel recollections, written in the form of letters in prose and verse addressed to Saintine, friend and collaborator of the playwright Jacques Ancelot (1794-1854), who had accompanied Marshal Marmont to the festivities marking the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I.

Contemporary quarter blond calf with small green corners, smooth spine decorated with blind fillets and ornaments and gilt decorative rolls at head and foot, green calf lettering-piece, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges; binding signed Thouvenin at foot of spine.

Lower joint split with a small loss, upper joint split and subsequently reglued, some foxing. 

An attractively bound copy in a contemporary binding by Thouvenin, one of the leading French bookbinders of the 19th century. 

Provenance: Robert de Nervo (1842-1909), with his bookplate pasted to the front pastedown.