Lot n° 17
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CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de. - Lot 17
CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de.
Mémoire d'outre-tombe.
Paris, Eugène et Victor Penaud frères, 1849-1850.
12 volumes in-8.
Bound in half red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, printed covers preserved (binding signed Pagnant).
A very important first edition of the utmost rarity, one of the masterpieces of the 19th century in which literature blends with history. The edition of these memoirs was published shortly after Chateaubriand's death on July 4, 1848, and it is known that during his lifetime, he had ceded the rights of exploitation to a company of subscribing shareholders formed in 1836 by the publisher H.-L. Delloye.
The copy is complete with all its covers, which bear the adhesive label of the bookseller Dion-Lambert, successor to the Penaud brothers. The first volume is headed by the list of subscribers, the letter to M. Delloye and the warning, although Carteret points out that this first section (XVI pp.) is often missing from copies bearing the adhesive label of Dion-Lambert.
Volumes I to VIII are dated 1849, volumes IX to XII 1850.
A fine, well-bound copy, with a few scattered but not serious brown spots.
Carteret I-163. Vicaire II-290. En Français dans le Texte 268. Escoffier 1833.
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