Amélina, Godefroy et Augustin, ou Les Trois époques d'Haïti

New edition, expanded from the novel entitled Amélina, épisode de la conquête et de la colonisation des Espagnols dans l'île d'Haïti (Tours, 1841), which comprised only the first narrative.

The following two, set respectively in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, are by a certain A***, who has not been identified.

Contemporary Romantic binding in full brown calf, smooth faded spine decorated with gilt Romantic arabesques, covers framed with gilt fillets and gilt Romantic arabesques, white moiré silk endpapers and pastedowns, corners bumped, gilt fillets to the board edges, all edges gilt.

Restorations to spine, a few minor spots of foxing.

Pierre-Philippe Baignoux (1752-1848), a native of Blois, pursued a brief political career during the French Revolution, serving as deputy for Indre-et-Loire in the Legislative Assembly and as mayor of Tours from 1792 to 1794.