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CUSTINE, Astolphe de 4 works in 6 vols. 1-2. Memoirs and travels, or Letters written at various times, during races in Switzerland, Calabria, England, and Scotland. Paris, Vézard, 1830. 2 vols. in-8° (foxing). Bradel mod. marbled paper. First edition + an 1830 Louvain edition of the same work, in-8° (russet), half blue calf. - 3. Russia in 1839. Second edition [...]. Paris, Libr. Amyot, 1843. 4 t. in 2 vols. in-12 (passim russeting, wetness to some ff.). Green cloth bradel of the ep. (rubbed, spine faded). Rare second edition, the first in-12 and partly original, published the same year as the original published at the same address in-8°. The marquis de Custine (1790-1857), French writer and traveller, presents in 36 letters his stay in Russia of about 4 months. His criticism of the tsarist regime and his premonitions on the Russian revolution earned him a lasting interest in Europe and America, and an equally lasting ban in Russia. With a general table of contents. Ref. Vicar II:1090 (original ed.). Prov. G. Wasilewzki (ms. entry). - Valerie d'Hitsche (id.). - 4 Spain under Ferdinand VII. Brussels, Wouters, 1844. 4 t. in 1 vol. in-8° (concentrated wetness on qqs pp.). Half calf glossy from the ep. (rubbed). Second edition. A folding table announcing a bull run. Prov. modern ms. and stamp.
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CUSTINE, Astolphe de 4 works in 6 vols. 1-2. Memoirs and travels, or Letters written at various times, during races in Switzerland, Calabria, England, and Scotland. Paris, Vézard, 1830. 2 vols. in-8° (foxing). Bradel mod. marbled paper. First edition + an 1830 Louvain edition of the same work, in-8° (russet), half blue calf. - 3. Russia in 1839. Second edition [...]. Paris, Libr. Amyot, 1843. 4 t. in 2 vols. in-12 (passim russeting, wetness to some ff.). Green cloth bradel of the ep. (rubbed, spine faded). Rare second edition, the first in-12 and partly original, published the same year as the original published at the same address in-8°. The marquis de Custine (1790-1857), French writer and traveller, presents in 36 letters his stay in Russia of about 4 months. His criticism of the tsarist regime and his premonitions on the Russian revolution earned him a lasting interest in Europe and America, and an equally lasting ban in Russia. With a general table of contents. Ref. Vicar II:1090 (original ed.). Prov. G. Wasilewzki (ms. entry). - Valerie d'Hitsche (id.). - 4 Spain under Ferdinand VII. Brussels, Wouters, 1844. 4 t. in 1 vol. in-8° (concentrated wetness on qqs pp.). Half calf glossy from the ep. (rubbed). Second edition. A folding table announcing a bull run. Prov. modern ms. and stamp.
