Lot n° 313
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MONTARAN (Baroness de). La Clef des champs. Excursions in th - Lot 313
MONTARAN (Baroness de). La Clef des champs. Excursions in the Venetian States, Tyrol, Belgium, Holland, etc. Paris, Mandeville, 1853.
In-8 black chagrin, spine ribbed with triple gilt fillet, gilt title, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt edges (period binding).
First edition, illustrated with 12 plates.
Marie-Constance-Albertine de Moisson de Vaux, baronne de Montaran, French woman of letters, born in Rouen in 1795, died in 1870. She was in the service of Queen Hortense and Empress Josephine. From an excursion to Italy, she brought back travel impressions: Naples and Venice (1837, in-8), Rome and Florence (1838 in-8), Bords du Rhin (1838 in-8), Anselme (1840 in-8), La Marquise de Vivonne (1842 2 vols. in-8), Mes loisirs (1846 2 vol. in-8), La Clef des Champs (1852 ? in-8), Poésies (1854 in-8), Jeanne de Kéroualles (1859 in-8), Passiflores, poésies (1863 in-18) (source Larousse XIXe s.). Oursel (II, 277) gives: Rouen 1796-1er janvier 1870.
A fine copy. Ex-libris J.M.
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