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Lot n° 92
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[COOPER (James Fenimore)]. The Red Rover, a tale by the auth - Lot 92
[COOPER (James Fenimore)]. The Red Rover, a tale by the author of The Pilot, etc., etc. In three volumes. Paris, Printed for Hector Bossange, quai Voltaire, n°11. Bobée et Hingray - Baudry - Calignani, 1827. 3 vol. in-12 of VII, 284 pp. ; 310 pp. ; 312 pp. in blond glazed calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and friezes and small cold irons, gilt title and tomaison, gilt fillet and cold frieze framing the boards, marbled edges (period binding).
Rare first edition, published a few days before the London edition by Colburn and a few months before the American edition in Philadelphia. It was printed by Lachevardière. Text in English.
Some rubbing and minor wear to binding, spine sunned, some scattered foxing, otherwise a fine copy of this rare original Paris edition.
By far the most influential of the maritime novels written by the author of Le Dernier des Mohicans, Le Corsaire Rouge was read and admired by Goethe and Berlioz, Melville and Conrad.
Expert: Madame Elvire POULAIN-MARQUIS
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