TAMPUCCI (Hippolyte). Poetry. Seconde édition, augmentée de - Lot 135

TAMPUCCI (Hippolyte). Poetry. Seconde édition, augmentée de poésies nouvelles. P., Paulin, 1833. In-4-8, long-grained blue half-maroq, long spine decorated with small irons, corners, untrimmed, cover and spine cons. (Mercier). Partly first edition, extremely rare, with a beautiful frontispiece drawn and engraved by Célestin Nanteuil, printed on Chine fixé. A superb copy, bearing this precious signed dedication on the title page: "A Mon Maître Théophile". Tampucci was a supervisor at the Collège Charlemagne, and his poems are dedicated to Th. Gautier, V. Hugo and Béranger. Provenance : - Mercier library - Bibliothèque Villeboeuf (gold-stamped number on the inside, in a corner) - Bibliothèque A. Lambiotte (Part V, Paris 1976, no. 94).