LA MARINE AU SIEGE DE PARIS / Par Le Vice-Amiral Bon de la Ronciere-le Noury d'apres les Documents Officiels.
by Baron Clement de La Ronciere-Le Noury, Camille Adalbert Marie
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Paris: Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur, 1872., 1872.. Good. - Octavo, three quarteer black calf & marbled boards titled in gilt between gilt decorations, gilt rules & gilt-decorated raised bands on the spine. The binding is rubbed & scuffed. xix, [i], 606 & [1] pages. Illustrated with tables. There is occasional foxing with a crease & short tear to the front endpaper. The atlas is lacking. Good. <p>The text only, lacking the atlas.<p>Second edition.<p>Camille Adalbert Marie, Baron Clement de La Ronciere-Le Noury [1813-1881] was an officer of the French Navy who notably distinguished himself in 1870 during the siege of Paris. The Baron writes in his foreword that his book does not attempt to be a history of the Siege of Paris, but only of those events in which the navy was involved.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37538
- Title
- LA MARINE AU SIEGE DE PARIS / Par Le Vice-Amiral Bon de la Ronciere-le Noury d'apres les Documents Officiels.
- Author
- Baron Clement de La Ronciere-Le Noury, Camille Adalbert Marie
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur, 1872.
- Date Published
- 1872.
- Keywords
- MILITARY; FRENCH NAVY; LA MARINE AU SIEGE DE PARIS PAR LE VICE-AMIRAL BARON DE LA RONCIERE-LE NOURY APRES LES DOCUMENTS OFFICIELS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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