GAUTIER (Theophilus). Letter to the President. Trip to Italy. 1850 .S.l. from the printing works of the secret museum of the King of Naples [Amsterdam: Auguste Brancart], 1890. - In-8, 218 x 144: frontispiece, 48 pp., printed cover. Fawn half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (modern binding). Galitzin, 198. - Dutel , I, 456, p. 192-Rare reprint, appeared the same year as the original, printed in Amsterdam by Auguste Brancart. According to Galitzin, this is the "only correct edition" of Gautier's famous licentious letter to the painter, demi-mondaine and salonnière Apollonie Sabatier (1822-1890), called "La présidente" by his friends. Théophile Gautier maintained a friendly and loving relationship with her; this pornographic letter dated Rome, October 19, 1850, is testimony to this. The author describes the itinerary he followed in the company of Cormenin from an inn on the Simplon to Rome. Edition of 100 numbered copies on japanese paper, bearing the number 5 written in graphite, in in-8 format and not in-12 as indicated by Dutel. Beautiful complete copy of the cover plates and spine, as well as the erotic frontispiece by Félicien Rops of the first edition, printed on paper from China. Provenance: Gérard Nordmann, with ex-libris (cat. II, 14-15 December 2006, no. 217).