MAISTRE (Xavier de)

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MAISTRE (Xavier de)
Travel around my room. Paris, Dufart, Year VII [1799]. In-18, 144 pp.: porphyry calf, gilt frame decorated with a net and a small chain, smooth spine decorated, red title coin, inside roulette, gilt edges (contemporary binding). First book by the author, the original edition of which was published anonymously in Lausanne in 1795. The sedentary journey was written during the forty-two days he was arrested in his room in the citadel of Turin for having engaged in a duel. Pretty frontispiece engraved on copper by Blanchard. Charming binding in jaspered calf, strictly contemporary with the edition. The decorative aspect of its plates would even encourage us to use the adjective "bouchardé", a term used in masonry: it is indeed the appearance of bush-hammered concrete that the decoration of the plates comes closest here. Minimal rubbing at the binding.
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