TOCQUEVILLE (Alexis de). Democracy in America. [Second part. - Lot 545

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TOCQUEVILLE (Alexis de). Democracy in America. [Second part. - Lot 545
TOCQUEVILLE (Alexis de). Democracy in America. [Second part.] First edition. Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1840. 2 volumes in one vol. in-12 of xi, [3], 263 and [4], 295 pp., brown half-brown chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt filets and cold threaded boxes, gilt title (contemporary binding). Very rare first edition in in-12 format. Published in 1840, five years after the two volumes of the first part, the second part of Democracy in America was printed in two in-8 volumes at only 1000 copies, not counting the in-12 copies, with the mention of original edition on the title pages, intended to complete the in-12 edition of the first part (bearing the date 1835, or an intermediate date). These in-12 series are rare and therefore constitute a publication well before the 1850 edition, sometimes presented as the first edition of Democracy in this format. Qqs rubbed, qqs small scattered freckles, qqs underlined in pencil. Good copy.
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