La Diablerie de Chaumont

by Émile Jolibois

$1,450 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Chaumont: Miot, 1838. 8vo. ii , 155 pp. FIRST EDITION. Folding lithographed plate, woodcuts throughout. Contemporary gilt brown morocco-backed marbled boards. An excellent copy. Item #20163 First edition. In 1475, Pope Sixtus IV signed a bull granting indulgences to any citizen in the French village of Chaumont who visited the church of St. John the Baptist when his feast day June 24

• Binding: Leather

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