Lamartine - Oeuvres de Lamartine - 1855

Selling a very fine 6-volume edition of Lamartine's Works from 1855, luxurious violet binding with ornate spine and covers. Interior impeccable, no staining, no worming. Published by Furme, Lecou and Pagnerre. Numerous engravings in very good condition.

Volume 1: Poetic Meditations, 1 portrait of Lamartine in the frontispiece, 504 pages, Isolation – The Man – Enthusiasm – Remembrance of Lake Geneva – Philosophy – Hymn to the Sun – Autumn – The Flowers – The Birds – Wisdom – The Periwinkle – Farewell to Grazellia – Greeting from the island of Eschia – To Victor Hugo – The Death of Socrates…

Volume 2: Poetic and Religious Harmonies, 536 pages, engravings: Hymn to Nature - Hymn to the Night - Hymn to the Morning – To Christians in times of trial, Landscape in the Gulf of Genoa – The West – Childhood memories – Mont Blanc – Eternity of Nature and the brevity of Man – To a fiancée of fifteen years – To the Nightingale – To a young Moldavian – Walter Scott’s farewell to his readers…

Volume 3: Jocelyn – Journal found at a country priest – Discourse: On the abolition of the death penalty delivered on 18 April 1839 – On the abolition of the death penalty, second discourse delivered on 17 April 1837 – On the abolition of the death penalty, discourse delivered in the Chamber of Deputies on 15 February 1838 – On foundlings – On the abolition of slavery, discourse delivered on 10 February 1840 – On the law relating to Napoleon’s mortal remains, discourse delivered in the Chamber of Deputies on 26 May 1840 – On literary property, report presented to the Chamber of Deputies, 452 pages, engravings.

Volume 4: The Fall of an Angel, 384 pages, engravings.

Volumes 5 and 6: Travel to the Orient, 480 pages and 512 pages, engravings. Corners a little worn.