Lot 188
Lot 188
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)

Une nichée de gentilshommes [A Nest of Gentlefolk, sometimes: Home of the Gentry.] Paris: Collection Hetzel, E. Dentu, 1861.

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)

Une nichée de gentilshommes [A Nest of Gentlefolk, sometimes: Home of the Gentry.] Paris: Collection Hetzel, E. Dentu, 1861.

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Price Realised GBP 1,000
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)
Une nichée de gentilshommes [A Nest of Gentlefolk, sometimes: Home of the Gentry.] Paris: Collection Hetzel, E. Dentu, 1861.
Presentation copy of the first French edition in book form, inscribed by the author to the French Historian Auguste Laugel: ‘à Mr Auguste Laugel / I. Tourguéneff’. Waddington and Montreynaud 18.

12mo (174 x 110mm). Half-title (a couple of small stains). 19th-century green half morocco over marbled boards by Chatelin (rebacked retaining spine, trivial wear); housed in modern cloth slipcase. Provenance: Auguste Laugel (1830-1914, French historian; inscription from the author on half-title).
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