Arthur de GOBINEAU (1816 – 1882)

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Arthur de GOBINEAU (1816 – 1882)
[Correspondence]. Collection of eleven works, including: - Correspondence between Alexis de Tocq ueville and Arthur de Gobineau. 1843 - 1859. Published by L. Schemann. Paris, Plon- Nourrit, 1908. In-8 of (4) ff., VII, 355 pp., (2) ff. in purple half-chagrin, gilt head, cover and spine kept (Honnelaître). First edition. "From a literary point of view, Tocqueville's letters, taken in their entirety, should be placed if not above, at least at the level of all that he wrote and published" (Preface of the editor). - Briefwechsel Gobineaus mit Adelbert von Keller, herausgegeben von Ludwig Schemann. Strasbourg, Trübner, 1911. In-8 of XV, (I), 206 pp, (2) ff, spindle, printed cover. First edition of the letters addressed by Gobineau from 1842 to 1882 to the German philologist of Tübingen, Adelbert von Keller, specialist of the Middle Ages, with answers, if any, in German, published by Ludwig Schemann. - Correspondence between Gobineau and the Count of Prokesch-Osten (1854 - 1876). Published by Clément Serpeille de Gobineau. Paris, Plon, s.d. (1933). In-8 of (3) ff, IV pp, (2) ff, 407 pp, (2) ff, light brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Honnelaître). First edition of this important correspondence enriched with two photographic portraits out of text. One of the 30 first copies on pure Lafuma thread (n° 19). Former mentor of the Duke of Reichstadt, the Count of Prokesh-Osten was Austrian ambassador to Constantinople from 1855 to his death in 1876. - Letters to two Athenian women (1868 - 1881). Athens, Castalie, s.d., 1936. In-12 square of XLVII, (3), 284 pp. and (2) ff. half-bottle green leather with corners, spine with gilt title, gilt head, cover and spine kept (Honnelaître). First edition, decorated with a photographic portrait of Gobineau in frontispiece, a facsimile and two reproductions of medallions sculpted by Gobineau showing the profile of the Dragoumis sisters. Edition at 1 600 numbered copies. Copy with the address of Bernard Grasset (label on the title). Appointed minister plenipotentiary in Greece in 1864, the peak of his diplomatic career, Gobineau embellished his stay with the sisters Zoé and Marie Dragoumis, sisters of the future prime minister Stéphanos Dragoumis, with whom he maintained until the end of his life a voluminous and remarkable correspondence of some 270 letters, among which the selection presented here (96 letters). - Persian Letters, published by A.B. Duff. Paris, Mercure de France, 1957. In-12 square of 100 pp, (2) ff, bradel half-maroquin old red, gilt head, cover and back kept (Montecot). First edition, with a reproduction of a painting on the frontispiece showing the chargé d'affaires Gobineau among other characters. One of the 25 first copies numbered on vellum of Rives (n° 18). 23 letters to his sister Caroline, written from June 1855 to November 1857. - Ecrits de Perse. Thirteen letters to his sister, published and presented by A.B. Duff. Paris, Mercure de France, 1957. In-8 of (1) f., 33, (1) pp., paperback, printed cover. First edition, printed at 300 copies (n° 115). Letters to his sister Caroline, addressed from Teheran between January 20th 1862 and August 5th 1863. They are the natural continuation of the Persian Letters. - Count de Gobineau - Mother Bénédicte de Gobineau. Correspondence. 1872 - 1882. Published and annotated by A. B. Duff. Paris, Mercure de France, 1958. Two volumes in-8 of 319 pp. ; 329, (1) pp. bradel blue half-chagrin, gilt heads, covers and spine kept (Honnelaître). First edition, decorated with a portrait of Gobineau by Mme de La Tour in the frontispiece of volume I. One of the 35 first copies numbered on superior vellum (n° 8). Correspondence between Gobineau and his sister Caroline, who became a Benedictine nun in the abbey of Solesme. - Letters of Cornélie Renan to Gobineau. Unpublished correspondence. Paris, Archives des lettres modernes, 1967. In-12, 69 pp. paperback. - Brazilian letters. Edition established and annotated by Marie-Louise Concasty. Paris, Société des Bibliophiles François, 1968. In-8 of (3) ff, XVII, 247 pp, (3) ff, purple half-maroquin with corners, gilt head, cover and spine kept. First edition printed at 45 nominative copies on Arches laid paper for the members of the Society, this one numbered 45 without mention of the dedicatee. Four original photographs mounted on leaves outside the text. 62 letters from Gobineau, stationed in Rio de Janeiro, to his wife Clémence, written from March 22, 1869 to April 6, 1870. With : RAEDERS (Georges). The count of Gobineau in Brazil (With many unpublished documents). Paris, Nouvelles Editions latines, 1934. In-8 of 174 pp, paperback, co
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