LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Toussaint Louverture. Dramatic poem - Lot 613

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LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Toussaint Louverture. Dramatic poem - Lot 613
LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Toussaint Louverture. Dramatic poem. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1850. In-8, demi-chagrin aubergine, smooth back. decorated with gold fillets and cold-pressed false nerves, speckled edges (Binding of the time). Original edition of this poem in five acts performed for the first time in Paris, at the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre on 6 April 1850, with Frédérick Lemaître in the role of Toussaint Louverture. On pp. 245 to 302, under the title De l'émancipation des esclaves (The Emancipation of the Slaves), we find the four speeches delivered by the author between 1835 and 1842. Past spine, titled in a different typography than the author's name.
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