Mirval jean (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

No date (about 1850-1860), (6),248pp. Embossed hardcover. 19,5x12,5cm. With 8 color lithographs, several initials and vignettes. Some light shelfwear, paper slightly foxed, though a good copy. TEXT IN FRENCH!!.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A strikingly bound copy of Mirval's novel about two men and their travels through the Americas, intended as a travel manual for young people, bound in a gilt cartonnage binding. An early edition, first published in 1837.In the original striking ornamental cartonnage binding, with gilt decorations.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, an engraved title page and two monochrome engraved plates. Collated, complete.This novel was written by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Champagnac under the pen name of C. H. Mirval. The work was written as a travel guide for young people, describing the travels of two men through the Americas. The work was intended to provide geographical information, as well as a moral guide, with descriptions of the culture and nature. In the original cartonnage binding. Externally very smart with light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the joints, and minimal fading to the spine. Offsetting to the free endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with only the odd minor spot. Very Good. None stated (illustrator). book.…