LE DERNIER HOMME, Ouvrage Posthume

by Jean-Baptiste Francois-Xavier Cousin de Grainville

$8,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Paris: Chez Deterville, Libraire, rue du Battoir, nº 16, quartier S. André-des-Arcs, 1805. 12mo, two volumes in one: pp. 1-4 1 2-200; 1-4 1 2-175 176: blank 177: errata 178: blank early nineteen-century full calf, spine panel richly tooled in gold, red leather title piece, all edges plain, marbled endpapers, green silk ribbon marker. First edition. The earliest fictional account of the last days of mankind,

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