GASPARIN

A CONSTANTINOPLE

Catherine Valerie Boissier GASPARIN

Paris, 1877

18 x 11 cm.

Third edition of this unusual travelogue to Constantinople undertaken by Countess Valérie de Gasparin (1813-1894). The original edition was published in 1867.

Bound copy from the period, half red shagreen. Decorated ribbed spine, title and year of publication gilded with stamps.

Condition: well-preserved binding. Fresh interior, foxing on pp. 180-181, small loss of paper in the margin of the leaf on pp. 19-20 (without affecting the text). Yellowed endpapers, slight foxing on the title.

Gasparin, Catherine Valérie Boissier, Countess of (1813-1894). — She published, under the pseudonym of Ant. Goru, three Nouvelles (1833; 2nd ed., 1845). Later, she dealt with questions of morality, in Marriage from a Christian Point of View (1842, 3 vols.; three ed.) which won the gold medal of the French Academy; she attacked legal prostitution in Social Leprosy (1870); and drunkenness, in Seven Men (1871).

Several of these volumes have been translated into English, German and Italian. Catherine de Gasparin often addressed the issues of the day, either in brochures always full of verve, or in articles addressed to the Illustration or the Archives du christianisme. She described with enthusiasm many trips made with her husband (Voyage au Levant, 1848, 3 vols.; four ed.; la Bande du Jura, 1865-1866, 4 vols.; A Constantinople, 1867; A Travers les Espagnes, 1868). Finally, she transcribed into French a large number of American and English volumes.

[Valerie de Gasparin (Ctsse)]
In Constantinople. By the author of Horizons Suivants. Third edition
Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1877
in-12 (18 x 11 cm); 487pp.