Marbot (François Achille), *Les Bambous: Fables by La Fontai - Lot 15

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Marbot (François Achille), *Les Bambous: Fables by La Fontai - Lot 15
Marbot (François Achille), *Les Bambous: Fables by La Fontaine, Adapted into Creole Dialect by an Old Commander*. Fort-Royal, Martinique: Ruelle and Arnaud, Government Printer, 1846. 1 volume, in-8°, contemporary binding in light brown half-maroquin with corner pieces. (Bound by Alexis Robin, La Roche-sur-Yon) The book is dedicated “to those of my lovely compatriots who have not forgotten the sweet speech of our childhood.” Title page with a vignette in the center; handwritten ink bookplate at the top of the title page reading “Madame E.A.M. Fiéron, 1849”; title - 2 ff. n.c. - 140 pp. Two rubbed corners, more or less pronounced foxing, a small water stain in the lower corner of the first 50 leaves. This copy belonged to Madame Eryphile Anne Marie Pineau, who married Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron in 1824; he served as governor of Guadeloupe from 1848 to 1851. An extremely rare first edition of this collection of fables, published two years before the abolition of slavery on April 27, 1848. Published anonymously. Distinguished provenance.
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