La France Littéraire, ou Dictionnaire Bibliographique des savants [...]
by Quérard, J.-M. (Joseph Marie)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
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Paris: Firmin Didot, Pere Et Fils. Good with no dust jacket. 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, with library labels removed from tail of spine and front pastedowns. Minimal library markings. Heavy rubbing to marbled papered boards. Loss of marbled paper along edges of boards. Small loss of leather at head of spine on four of the five bound volumes. Moderate rubbing to leather spines. No splitting to gutters at endpapers. Moderate foxing throughout. 1/2" loss to strip along blank fore margin of half-title page to Volume Two. All half-title leaves present. Heavy creasing to one leaf in Volume Seven.; Published 1827-1839. Title continues: "historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que des littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en Français, plus particuliérement pendant les XVIIIe et XIXe siécles". xxix, [1], 582; 756; 562; 646; 668; 647; 574; 606; 597; 575 pages. 10 volumes in 5. Quarter leather and marbled boards. Page dimensions: 220 x 133mm. [Although these ten volumes do cover from A to Z, a further two supplementary volumes which included corrections and additions were published in 1857-64.]; 8vo .
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- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5867
- Title
- La France Littéraire, ou Dictionnaire Bibliographique des savants [...]
- Author
- Quérard, J.-M. (Joseph Marie)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Firmin Didot, Pere Et Fils
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1827
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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