ANTOINE, A[ntoine].
Le jeune âge des Bourbons, ou anecdotes remarquables de leur enfance, depuis Henri IV jusqu'à nos jours; suivi de quelques traits d'esprit, de saillies fines, sentimentales de petits enfants, à l'occasion du retour de ces princes.
Paris: Alexis Eymery, 1815.
16mo (144 × 90 mm.), pp. 196 (including half-title), plus additional engraved title and 3 plates (one bound as a frontispiece), all hand-coloured. Uncut in early twentieth-century polished calf gilt in the style of Rivière for Brentanos, spine richly gilt, two green morocco labels, top edge gilt. Joints very slightly rubbed. A very pretty copy.
First edition of this attractive juvenile title, an enthusiastic celebration of the Bourbon restoration in France and a suitably royalist approach to childhood. The frontispiece shows the imprisoned Louis XVI teaching his children, with a globe and dividers.
Not in COPAC or RLG; OCLC gives Southern University Library only.
£300.00
US$595.74*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.985799 for the day 25 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
25 July 2008