Méditations en prose / par une dame indienne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercier, Alina Louise Soldane d'Eldir, -1851, author.

Contributor:

Fortia d'Urban, Agricole Joseph François Xavier Pierre Esprit Simon Paul Antoine, marquis de, 1756-1843, editor.

Porthmann, veuve, printer.

Pichard, Nicolas, 1783?-1858, bookseller.

Ponthieu, Ulfrand, active 1819-1834, bookseller.

Dentu, J. G. (Jean-Gabriel), 1770-1840, bookseller.

Amyot, Pierre-Fleurus, 1794-1854, bookseller.

Ambroise Dupont et Cie, bookseller.

Language:

French

Penn Provenance:

Château des Rozais (Rilly-la-Montagne, France). Library (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 236 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

A Paris : A l'imprimerie de Mme. Ve. Porthmann, rue Sainte-Anne, no. 43 : et chez Richard, quai Conti, no 5, Ponthieu, au Palais-Royal, Dentu, au Palais-Royal, Amyot, libraire, rue de la Paix, no. 6, Ambroise Dupont et Ce., libres., rue Vivienne, no. 16, 1828.

Notes:

"L'editeur à l'auteur" (page viij) signed: Le marquis de Fortia.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Simon Beattie.

Kislak Center copy has on verso of front free endpaper illustrated bookplate ("BIBLIOTHEQUE DU CHATEAU DES ROZAIS 1908 B [struck through: G R [struck through: 2]"), with manuscript shelf mark ("G 2 Suppl") in red ink ("G" and "2" struck through in pencil) and manuscript shelf-mark ("QSSQ K-3") in pencil.

Kislak Center copy has bookseller's printed description of a different copy of this work affixed to front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy bound in gold-ruled half purple leather over purple leather; gold-stamped spine decorations and title ("MÉDITATIONS EN PROSE"); marbled endpapers; all edges marbled.

OCLC:

40995535