[DUCHESSE de BERRY]. Manuscript "Journal du voyage d'Alphons - Lot 284

[DUCHESSE de BERRY]. Manuscript "Journal du voyage d'Alphonse Mallet à Dieppe". 1827. In-4, 1-41 pp. fine handwriting, black ink, paperback. Moving diary written by Alphonse Mallet as a child (1819-1906), son of banker James Mallet, about his trip to the Bay of the Somme and Normandy, from Dieppe to Fécamp. It describes his steamboat tours, visits to castles and other prestigious sites, and mentions the Vielcastel, de Cypière, Alloin, Périer, Mortemart, de Polly and Oberkampf families. Diary containing an interesting narrative studded with several anecdotes evoking the Mallet family's links with the Duchess de Berry, whom they accompanied on hunting trips, to various visits and balls, or for sea bathing. ATTACHED WITH 3 ALBUM OF DRAWINGS in-8 oblong: - 33 plates (pencil sketches and watercolors, mostly of seascapes, portrait of a child), half-black morocco, "album" in gilded letters on upper cover; - 13 plates (pencil sketches, animals, hunting scene, horse race), half-red morocco; 7 plates (pencil sketches, antique statues, landscape), red morocco.