Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem

c1920, Chateaubriand travels from Paris to Jerusalem, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College

Author

François-René de Chateaubriand

Publisher

Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920

Printing Details

Undated, c1920. Nouvelle edition. Hardback. Quarter leather with four raised bands and gilt titling to spine, marbled paper covered boards. Pages' top edge marbled. 18.5 × 12.5cm, 563pp. French text.

This copy with the bookplate of K T Butler to the front pastedown. Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler (known as Blazing Butler) was a renowned scholar and lecturer in modern languages and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. The quotation is from Lucretius's De Rerum Natura and translates as "It is a joy to approach untouched springs and drink, and a joy to pluck new flowers".

Chateaubriand's Record of a Journey from Paris to Jerusalem was first published in 1811 and was his account of a journey through Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa.

Condition

Very good condition. There is tanning to the pages and some pages uncut (ie unopened) but otherwise a good solid copy with an interesting provenance.

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