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1878ref. 1004165Naples: Chez Detken et Rocholl 1878. First edition of this pocket collection of romantic French verse inspired by the volcanic landscape of Mount Vesuvius and Capri number 196 of an unspecified limitation. The poet-historian "Lucifer" assures readers that his little book's brevity and dramatic content sirens intoxicants passions constitute a "double garantie contre l'ennui" while his appendix provides curious travelers with information about the Campanian sites mentioned in the poems. The sensational cover design lithographed by Eschenbach & Schaefer in Leipzig features gilded devils hoisting a vignette of the erupting Vesuvius and a blazing heart forged by a fire-breathing horned cherub. Text in French. Provenance: Morris-Levin Collection of Publishers' Bookbindings. OCLC locates no copies in North America. A bright and mischievous artifact of nineteenth-century Continental tourism in fine condition. Single volume measuring 5.5 x 4 inches: 125 3. Original pictorial chromolithographed boards tan cloth spine decorated and lettered in gilt white coated endpapers all edges gilt. Hand-numbered "196" on verso of title page decorative initials and woodcut vignettes in text. Lightest shelfwear ink shelfmark to half-title penciled bookseller notes and early owner signature. Chez Detken et Rocholl unknown books
1772Four volumes in-12. pp. (16), 184 pp; 176 pp.; (2), 182, (1) pp.; (6), 198, (2); half title in first volume, none issued in volume 2 as Gaskell notes, contemporary calf, gilt fillet and fine labels, marbled endpapers. This is the rare variant without the dagger signature marks (Gaskell Foulis, 597).
1816ref. 15402Lyon, Rusand, 1816 ; in-8, broché ; (1) f. blanc, IV, 139 pp., couverture factice.
1737ref. 35986Nürnberg-Frankfurt a. M., Johann Georg Lochner, 1737. 4°. Mit illustr. Kupfertitel. Drucktitel in Rot u. Schwarz. Mit 2 großen Textkupfern von M. Merian. 3 Bll., 880 S., 32 Bll., Pgmt. d. Zt. m. handschriftl. Rückentitel u. dreiseitigem Rotschnitt.
