Physiologie de l’étudiant

by Louis Huart, ill Alophe and Maurisset, Alophe, ill

$450 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: 1841. 16mo. iv , 122, 2 pp. FIRST EDITION. Wood engravings throughout. Original printed wrappers bound into later half sheep over marbled boards. In excellent condition. Item #20122 First edition, an illustrated satirical typology of students. Describing university attendees living in the Latin Quarter, the author attests to their constant eating and drinking, smoking of cigarettes, and dancing like ancient

• Binding: Wrappers

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