Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch

Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.
First Edition.

18cm x 12cm. [iv], iv, 304, [2] pages. Half leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Text is in French.

First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.

Very minor shelf and handling wear. Very minor tanning. Near Fine Condition.

AU$4,000.00

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