MÉRIMÉE Prosper (1803-1870) [AF 1844, 25e f]. - Lot 156

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MÉRIMÉE Prosper (1803-1870) [AF 1844, 25e f]. - Lot 156
MÉRIMÉE Prosper (1803-1870) [AF 1844, 25e f]. [Discourses prononcés dans la séance publique tenue par l'Académie française, pour la réception de M. Ampère, le 18 mai 1848 (Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, 1848)]; in-4 of 23 p., without the title page, mute cover on violet paper, bound in brown morocco, large frame of straight and curved fillets intertwined, lining in lemon morocco with a frame of gilt fillets, endpapers in brown moiré silk, gilt edges on witnesses (Lortic). First edition of Jean-Jacques AMPÈRE's speech praising Alexandre GUIRAUD, followed by Prosper MÉRIMÉE's Answer. Bound at the head with an original pen-and-ink drawing by Mérimée (19 x 13 cm) representing a musketeer from behind with his sword; and a L.A.S. from Mérimée to Ampère, November 26, about a medicinal formula (1 p. in-8). Provenance: Ch. Delafosse libraries (1920, no. 868); Alain de SUZANNET (1977, no. 150, bookplate); Daniel SICKLES (IV, no. 1303).
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