SADI DE CHIRAZ, Moslih-Eddin. Gulistan ou le Parterre-de-Fle - Lot 181

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SADI DE CHIRAZ, Moslih-Eddin. Gulistan ou le Parterre-de-Fle - Lot 181
SADI DE CHIRAZ, Moslih-Eddin. Gulistan ou le Parterre-de-Fleurs [...] Translated by N. Semelet. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1834. In-4° of [4], 410 pp. Half red morocco, long spine decorated with a gilt climbing rose, arms, place and date gilt at the foot, gilt rose scroll on the boards, themselves of green paper with ginko motif, gilt head. (Thierry, successor of Petit-Simier. The regicidal conventionalist Lazare Carnot was also a humanist and a great admirer of the Persian poet Sadi de Shiraz, bard of women, wine and roses. It is to him that President Carnot owes his first name of Sadi, previously attributed to his uncle Sadi Carnot, the physicist, who died of cholera at the age of 36. Some foxing. Enriched with a painted red silk bookmark and a gutter-style card bearing in ink: "Mr L. H. Sadi C." [Lazare-Hypolite Sadi Carnot, the colonel], probably souvenirs of 1st communion.
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