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Paris, Tournachon-Molin, 1825-1829.14 volumes [166 x 93 mm], [iv], xxviii, 246 + [iv], 310 + [iv], 272 + [iv], 288 + [iv], 250 + [iv], 258 + [iv], 237, (1) l. + [iv], xii, 278 + [iv] + 292 + [iv], 299 + [iv], 288 + [iv], 292 + [iv], 284 + [iv], 346 pp.
Bound in full blond sheepskin, gilt border around the covers, flat decorated spines, hinges and extremities of the spine slightly rubbed. Contemporary binding.
"The first French edition" (J. Rives Childs) (1956).
"Quite rare" (J. Rive Childs).
Memoires.... Published in Germany, and translated by Sir Aubert de Vitry, translator of Goethe's Memoirs, etc. with a preface by de Vitry.
"The German edition of the Memoirs had been received so favorably that a Paris editor decided to bring out this pirated edition. It is thus the first French edition. However, it is not the first French edition of the original French text but a translation of the Schütz edition and is therefore a translation of a translation." (J. Rives Childs).
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