[SENT]. PETIT-SENN, John. Bluettes et boutades [...]. Third - Lot 310

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[SENT]. PETIT-SENN, John. Bluettes et boutades [...]. Third - Lot 310
[SENT]. PETIT-SENN, John. Bluettes et boutades [...]. Third revised and enlarged edition of the double, Paris, Geneva : Joël Cherbuliez, 1851. In-16 of XXIV, [3], 157 p. Romantic binding in full red chagrin, gilt and cold framing, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt box and small gilt irons, gilt border inside, all edges gilt (period binding). Beautiful copy well bound in the period. The copy of John Petit-Senn's daughter and grandson. Beautiful and moving sending from J. Petit-Senn to his daughter Suzanne, in the form of a handwritten ex-dono: a quatrain on the title page ("Hommage à ma fille Suzanne. 11 aoust [sic] 1851) : Lorsque j'aurai cessé de vivre, // Cherche ton père dans ce livre, // Car pour le composer il prit // Son cœur, son âme et son esprit." (signed "J. PetitSenn"). The book then belonged to John Jacquier (grandson of J. Petit-Senn and son of Suzanne) and then to the Geneva bibliophile Frédéric Raisin: "Ex libris J. Jacquier, nunc Frédéric Raisin. 1915 ».
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