Histoires extraordinaires. – Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires. – Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. – Eurêka. – Histoires grotesques et sérieuses Michel Lévy frères | Paris 1856 – 1857 – 1858 – 1864 | 11,5 x 19 cm | 5 volumes in half morocco
Complete collection, in the firsts editions, of these famous French translations established by Charles Baudelaire.
Bound in half-black morocco, spine in five compartments, gilt dates at the foot, marbled paper boards, comb patterned endpapers, wrappers preserved for the first volume and wrappers and spine persevered for the following four, top edge gilt, binding signed Semet & Plumelle for the last four volumes.
The first volume is enriched with the famous portrait of Charles Baudelaire on Chine paper engraved by Edouard Manet himself, which usually appears in the work by Charles Asselineau
Charles Baudelaire. Sa vie et son œuvre.
Some small foxing present in the last three volumes of our series.
Beautiful and rare collection set in an elegant uniform binding by Semet & Plumelle.