Pie IX Nouvelle Biographie, 1853, France

A French cartonnage book, “Pie IX Nouvelle Biographie Suivie de la Relation du Siege de Rome en 1849”. Sixieme Edition. {Title: Pius IX New Biography Followed by the Relation of the Siege of Rome in 1849}. Published by A Mame et Cie, Tours. Size: 7.35 × 4.5”, 187 pages. The cover and backstrip is pulled away from the inner-spine at a pre-title page (see photo). The cover is medium blue, darkened gold and white with a color center illustration. The lower right cover corner is bumped with under-board exposed and bends downward. Paper on the left-side of the backstrip is starting to pull upward near the upper backstrip and near the center as seen from the back cover. The back cover is good with a couple small dark soil spots. The enclosed tissue is heavily foxed. There is a soil spot in the margin on page 12, on the lower left corner of page 38, and a small soil spot in the right margin on page 161. A section of pages are detached together from pages 99-118. The binding at the back cover is sound.