CHATEAUBRIAND (François-René de). - Lot 162

CHATEAUBRIAND (François-René de). - Mémoires d'outre-tombe (6 vol.). - Congress of Verona. Spanish War. Negotiations: Spanish colonies. Followed by La Vie de Rancé. Paris, Eugène et Victor Penaud Frères, Éditeurs, s. d. [1849-1850]. Together 7 volumes in-8°, black half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Second edition published the same year as the original by the same publisher, and first illustrated edition. 28 plates (of 30), mounted on chine (except for the 8 portraits), all steel-engraved by Ferdinand DELANNOY, after René de MORAINE, Gustave STAAL and Jules GAGNIET. False titles read: "OEuvres complètes de Chateaubriand", which will contain 20 volumes in all. From the Antoine de Roquemaurel library, with handwritten bookplate on the title of volume I. Handwritten letter pasted on the flyleaf of Volume I. Light foxing and slight discharges. Vicaire II, 291 & 301.