A collection of sixteen early 19th century French traveling books, the publisher, J.B. Fournier Père et Fils, produced a number of uniformly bound titles in miniature format under the heading of Bibliothèque Portative du Voyageur, and the customer would make their selections which would then be housed in purpose built boxes, portable books have a long and distinguished history, traveling libraries date back to at least the early 17th century, and miniature bibles were carried by medieval itinerant preachers. 12mo. Leather, covers and spines ornamented in gilt, slightly rubbed, one stained, minor worm holes in one spine. Paris (J.B. Fournier Père et Fils) 1802-1807.

The titles are as follows:
Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé. 232 pp. 1802.; Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas. Oeuvres Choisies. 262 pp. 1803.; Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains, et de leur Décadence. 234 pp. 1802.; Corneille, Pierre. Chefs-d'Oeuvre. 5 vols., 197, 256, 194, 273, 210 pp. 1807.; Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis. Oeuvres Choisies. 276 pp. 1806.; Hamilton, Anthony. Mémoires du Comte de Grammont. 2 vols., 162, 174 pp. 1802.; Piron, Alexis. Oeuvres Choisies. 2 vols., 216, 231 pp. 1802.; Saint-Réal, César Vichard de. Conjuration des Espagnols contre Venise et Conjuration des Gracques. 165 pp. 1802.; Tressan, comte de. Histoires du Petit Jehan de Saintré et de Gérard de Nevers. 216 pp. 1802.; Vergier, Jancques & Jean-Baptiste Joseph Willart Grécourt. Oeuvres Choisies. 200 pp. 1802.

Book ID: 44309

Price: $3,250.00