by Boué de Villiers, A.-L. [Amoury-Louis]

Paris: E. Dentu, 1864

In French.  First edition.

Original bright blue cloth boards with gilt decoration on front cover with small gilt titles on green half-leather bound five-section spine; light wear to corners, wear to top of covers and portions of spine sides, tiny speckles on both covers; nice intact marbled endpapers, pages are mildly age-toned and tight, clean and intact except for occasional foxing. Top edge of pages are gilt. Has detached green cloth bookmark.

210 pages.

Octavo (4 7/8" by 7-3/8").

A collection of essays and poetry by Amoury-Louis Boué de Villiers (1834-1883?).

Inscribed and SIGNED by the author in 1864 on the half-title page. Attached in is a two-page letter on thin paper from the author.

Also has a bookplate to front pastedown endpaper from the library of French politician Count Charles de Mandre (1805-1875), a close friend of French emperor Napoleon III.

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