La capanna indiana
by SAINT-PIERRE [Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Firenze [i.e. Florence]: Presso Guglielmo Piatti, 1808. 106pp. Contemporary straight-grain gilt-tooled black morocco. A trifle rubbed. Leaves lightly toned. A handsomely bound copy of an Italian translation of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's (1737-1814) celebrated novel, first published as La Chaumière indienne at Paris in 1790. The work, in which a traveler finds wisdom in the cottage of an Indian outcast, is an early example of cultural primitivism in literature, a theme that was to become central to the Romantic movement. . 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ21146
- Title
- La capanna indiana
- Author
- SAINT-PIERRE [Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Presso Guglielmo Piatti
- Place of Publication
- Firenze [i.e. Florence]
- Date Published
- 1808
- Keywords
- Literature
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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