Vingt et un jours à la Mer Morte. À Madame *** [Eugénie Breidenbach].
DELESSERT (Édouard).

Vingt et un jours à la Mer Morte. À Madame *** [Eugénie Breidenbach].

INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION

First edition, no. 4 of 53 numbered copies. 8vo. Finely bound by Niedrée in contemporary full red morocco, gilt, with raised bands, inner gilt dentelles and marbled paper end papers, t.e.g., some rubbing to extremities. Bookplate to upper pastedown. [4], 221pp. Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1851.

£350.00
DELESSERT (Édouard).
Vingt et un jours à la Mer Morte. À Madame *** [Eugénie Breidenbach].

Inscribed by the author on imprint page “[Eugénie Breidenbach] ma meilleure amie. Edouard.”

The author was a French banker, a friend of Ferdinand de Lesseps and was one of the latter’s personal invitees to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

Jean-Marie Carré, Voyageurs et écrivains français en Égypte, Cairo, 1932, pp. 353.

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