CARNOT, Lazare-Hippolyte. Memoirs on Carnot by his son. New - Lot 108

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CARNOT, Lazare-Hippolyte. Memoirs on Carnot by his son. New - Lot 108
CARNOT, Lazare-Hippolyte. Memoirs on Carnot by his son. New edition. Paris, Charavay, Mantoux, Martin, 1893. 2 vols. in-4° of 607, [1] pp. ; 645, 1 bl. and [1] pp. Frontispieces and hors-texte engravings. Revolutionary pastiche binding in long-grained red morocco, long spine decorated in its center with a lictor beam topped with a Phrygian cap framed with small irons, gilt roulettes and gilt fillets, gilt title, gilt place and date at the foot, gilt arms on the boards in a large gilt Greek frame with gilt spandrels, gilt roulettes on the edges, heads and chasses, gilt head, cover preserved. With the arms of the Carnot family. Annotations in the margin of Colonel Carnot. Enriched with ● Ex-libris engraved with the figure of M. Lemoine, lawyer and teacher of youth, pasted on a free leaf ●● Menu of the Sabretache of December 15, 1923 in honor of the Centenary of Lazare Carnot ●●● 4 handwritten documents: The plan of the work of Marcel REINHARD, Le Grand Carnot, Paris, Hachette, 1950-1952, 2 vols. ; 3 letters from medalist Sylvain KINSBERGER (1855-1935), Paris, August-September 1916, to Colonel Carnot, concerning the making of a token of the 123rd Territorial Battalion. ●●●● Signed drawing, without place or date, pencil, watercolor and gouache, representing Carnot's tomb in Magdeburg, pasted on a sheet placed opposite the off-text heliogravure. Spine slightly sunned; some rare spotting. Nice copy however.
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