TONNELLE (Louis Nicolas Alfred) - Lot 119

TONNELLE (Louis Nicolas Alfred) Fragments sur l'Art et la Philosophie suivis de Notes et Pensées diverses recueillis dans les papiers de Alfred TONNELLE publiés par G.A. HEINRICH. Tours, Mame, 1859. In-8: LVI, 344pp. Maroquin burgundy, ribbed spine decorated with blue mosaic diamond-shaped boxes, superb green and blue mosaic geometric gilt decoration on boards, filleted edges, wide inner lace, gilt edges. A fine copy. First edition, out of trade, republished in 1860 and 1874. Pages 297 to the end are devoted to excerpts from the voyage to the Pyrenees in 1858 (Labarère 1588). Contains several extracts from "Trois mois aux Pyrénées". Binding reproduced in the Mame exhibition catalog (Mame, Angers-Tours-Paris: deux siècles de livres).