[Felix] Nadar; Theodore de Banville [pref.]

L'Hotellerie des Coquecigrues (Notes au Crayon) [Inscribed and Signed]

Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Lettres, 1880. Very Good-. Item #47201

Paris: E. Dentu, Editeur, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Lettres, 1880. First Edition. 12mo (18cm); publisher's pictorial wrappers; viii,308pp. Moderate soil, chipping and wear to wrapper margins, spine cracked with evidence of glue repair, interior clean and sound. About Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed on half title page, "a mon brave et bon Schemborgh [?], mon camarade De la Legion [?] (1848) / mon excellent ami depuis (1880) / Nadar."

A collection of impressionistic vignettes by the famed French photographer and air balloonist. The title references the fictitious and absurdist creature the Coquecigrue first coined by Rabelais in his novel "Pantagruel."

Price: $350.00