Histoires extraordinaires

First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Contemporary half brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Spine uniformly sunned. Scattered foxing.
Armorial bookplate, Comte Coustant d'Yanville, Daniel de Grangues.
The first work by Poe translated by Baudelaire, with his preface Sa vie, son oeuvre, first link in Baudelaire's conquest of his literary prose double, destined to definitively establish the name of Charles Baudelaire alongside Poe.