TASTU (Amable) - DELAFAYE-BREHIER (Julie) - FOA (Eugénie) - - Lot 591

TASTU (Amable) - DELAFAYE-BREHIER (Julie) - FOA (Eugénie) - etc. Alpes et Pyrénées - Arabesques Littéraires composées de Nouvelles Historiques, Anecdotes, Descriptions, Chroniques et Récits Divers. Paris, Lehuby, 1842. In-8: VIII, 392pp; 12 lithographed plates out of text. Minor spotting. Contemporary brown chagrin, smooth, slightly oiled spine richly decorated with romantic scroll irons by BOUTIGNY (glued vignette of the bookbinder), gilt rocaille and piétements, gold-ground frame around the boards, large central gilt urn and gilt rocaille irons surrounded by a set of curved cold irons forming a double frame, gilt edges, corners rubbed. A fine copy, perfectly bound by a 19th-century master bookbinder. Miscellanea historico-literary. Very little on the 2 massifs. The first text sets the tone: "Une maison d'Ajaccio" (Labarère 1571).