[Mexico]: Prévost d'Arlincourt, Charles-Victor:

Dios Lo Quiere. [bound with]: Continuacion a Dios Lo Quiere [bound with]: La Italia Roja.

Mexico City: Tipographia de R. Rafael, 1851. [4],56pp., plus lithograph portrait; [4],81,[1]pp.; [4],xxv,224,iii pp. Quarto. Contemporary red quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners worn; head of spine detaching, boards a bit rubbed. Varied toning, scattered foxing. Good plus. Item #2979

Rare Mexican editions of three polemical works against the revolutions of 1848 in Europe by French Romantic writer Charles-Victor Prévost d'Arlincourt. The author published a number of highly popular and critically maligned novels during the 1820s and 1830s and was a staunch monarchist whose father was guillotined during the Reign of Terror in 1794. In the first two essays he inveighs against events in France, and the final, lengthiest work he gives an extensively critical view of the popular uprisings in Italy. Together they comprise his last substantive published efforts. The works were translated into Spanish and published in Spain in 1849 and 1850, and then passed quickly into Mexico. OCLC locates just three copies of the first two works and only one copy of the last.

Price: $400