Les Amusements des Bains de Bade

Description

Original printed wraps. 17x13x1 cm. Spes. Lausanne. 1922. 101 pp. Nine full-page gravure plates, color frontis, fifteen inline illustrations. Collection “Vieille Suisse”. Very good, light wear to spine, otherwise near fine and uncut. French text. Color frontis depits “la grande porte de Bade en 1820”. A social satire set in the famous “Bains de Bade” of Baden-Baden, Germany. A nice curiosity piece for anyone with an interest in the setting as well as those interested in the French culture in the early 1900s. weight: 0.3 lb.