Voyage En Orient by Lamartine, M De - 1859

Paris: Charles Gosselin. Good with no dust jacket. 1848. Hardback. Front flyleaf missing/quarterbound black and marble leather HB with gilt lettering on red patch on upper spine with gilt designs; 560 pages; Bled end pages and book edges/slight wear along each side of spine and at corners/wear along back bottom edges/text in French .

Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy bound in the original leather over marble boards. Front board detached with the spine band missing. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; vol. III (only): 388 pages. Subjects; Travel. Oriental Travel. M. Alphonse de Lamartine.

Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, Furne et Cie, Pagnerre 1859. 8vo. 2 vols. Half brown calf with marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Light brown leather panels to spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Two volumes from the works of Lamartine. Rubbing to the spine and edges and chipping to the leather, with some fading to the marbling at the boards. Some damage t endpapers of vol 2. Ink ownership names to both volumes, with minor pencil marks in both. Bindings firm. French Text. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1859.

Malines et Brussels : P.J. Hanicq Et Editeurs, 1836. Leather. Very Good. 5" by 3.5". Not Stated. A smart, pocket-sized copy of this uncommon work about the author's luxurious journey throughout Asia, made from 1832 to 1833, illustrated throughout. A smart, pocket-sized work the author's journey through Asia, including memories and observations.Written by Alphonse de Lamartine, a nineteenth-century French author and poet, and the Former Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France. This work is an account of the author's grand journey he made to the countries of the Orient, a journey made in royal luxury. The journey was made between July 1832 and September 1833.Lemartine describes his travels in a brilliant and bold style, richly describing the East as it was at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The author also had a great fascination for the Orient.Including an engraved vignette frontispiece, with seven further vignette plates, some of which are in colour. Collated and… Read More

Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards. Very good. 4 vols. 271, 329, 310, 299 pages. 16 x 10.5 cm. Two large engraved fold-out maps, 2 engraved frontispieces. Lamartine remains the most renowned Orientalist in Lebanon and the Middle East; he was also instrumental in the founding of the Second Republic of France, Extensive Index. Modest, intermittent text toning, more pronounced first few and last leaves, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt.

Paris, Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835. Halbleder, gebunden; marmoriertes Überzugspapier, grün/schwarze, goldgeprägte Rücken, Lesebändchen / 4 Bände / Anz. Seiten: XIII, 340, 429, 388, 395 / 14 x 21,5 cm / mit 1 lithografierten Portrait, 2 gefalteten, lithografierten Karten und 1 gefalteten Tabelle / Zustand: gut, leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Einbände berieben und leicht beschabt, Papier etwas gebräunt und durchwegs mässig stockfleckig Reiseberichte - Reiseliteratur