ATALA
BY FRANCOIS-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
TRANSLATED BY JAMES SPENCE HARRY
FROM FIRMIN DIDOT'S EDITION OF THE VISCOUNT'S WORKS
ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE
*** RARE LARGE ANTIQUE BOOK (13'' X 10'') ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ EXQUISITE NORTH AMERICAN WOODLAND SCENERY ~ NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN WARS ~ SEMINOLE, MUSKOGEE (MUSCOGEE, CREEK) TRIBES ~ CLASSIC AMERICANA ***
Publisher:
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887.
Features:
• large book measures about 13.25'' x 10''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• beveled edges to boards
• textblock all edges gilt
• patterned endpapers
• illustrated with 30 full-page engraved plates, plus a few part-page engravings, by Gustave Doré
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