LES VOYAGEURS EN FRANCE Depuis La Renaissance Jusqu'a La Revolution
by Babeau, Albert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie Firmin-Didot, 1885. Half-Leather. Very Good. FRENCH TEXT. Includes: Montaigne, Madame de Sevigne, Thomas du Fosse, Sterne, Smollett, Henri Storch, Madame Laroche and many more. Contemporay Brown Calf-Half-Leather Binding with Marbled paper-covered boards and leather corners. Spine has gilt horizontal divisions with Gilt Title on black ground in 2nd compartment. All page edges speckled Red. 433 p.pages, 520g, 7" Tall. Slight edge wear and wear along sides of spine. Some rubbing to boards. Hinges sound & text block firm. From the Library of Edgar Mac Culloch, his illustrated bookplate is on the endpaper (faint college library stamp above. No other inscriptions. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018975
- Title
- LES VOYAGEURS EN FRANCE Depuis La Renaissance Jusqu'a La Revolution
- Author
- Babeau, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Librairie Firmin-Didot
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/HISTORY/TRAVEL/EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY/
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- Rubbing
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