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Volume 5 contains the prefaces to previous editions, excerpts and articles published on the subject of the Genie and Atala, pieces in verse on the subject, the Defense of the Genie, the table of the 4 volumes -
The titles present the same epigraph borrowed from Montesquieu as those of the original edition (1802). -
François-Auguste Chateaubriand - Genius Of Christianity, Or Beauties Of The Christian Religion - 1809 - The Second Volume Is Missing -
2ff.-IV + 400 pages - 2ff.-400 pages - 2ff.-536 pages - 2ff.-XXV+1f.-368 pages -
Good condition of the bindings, works in their period full brown leather, good condition of the covers and spine, rubbing from use, rubbed corners, decorated spine, finely tinted red edges, gilt titles and volume numbers on pieces of morocco -
Good condition inside, light soiling, work adorned with very beautiful engravings out of text including in frontispiece marbled flyleaves -
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