Search Results: France from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Canet, France: Editions Trabucaire, 2009. First edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 275 p. w/ footnotes, selected bibliography, index. A study of the peasants in the department of Pyranees-Orientalis and their gradual integration into the nation-state, looking at local issues vs national, Carlists and socialists, monarchists and republicans, and more.

Paris: Gallimard, 1995. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight scuffing to covers. 70 p. w/many color illustrations. An attractive book of numerous Mercier posters, with full page reproductions accompanied by smaller images of his own draft of the poster. Suprisingly uncommon.

Waterloo, ONT: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. Page edges slightly browned. viii, 181 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the French reaction to witchcraft in this period, focusing on the moderating influence of the courts which prevented a witch-craze.

New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. Name of former owner on flyleaf. ix, 221 p. w/footnotes, selected bibliography, index. A study of 19th c, writers and their portrayal of crowds, argung their portrayals are more bourgeoise anxiety reagrding crowds than scientific study.

London & New York: Routledge, 2011. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Tall octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Long, very thin scratch to back cover. A small spot inside back cover. xx, 348 p. w/illus., chapter endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the role of this Empress in as both a major private collector & important public patron of the arts.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Letterhead note from the author laid in. 247 p. w/ illustrations, notes at end of chapters, chronology, bibliography, index. A study of the French Cochin family many decades, who produced merchants, historians, artists, social leaders, and political figures for over 150 years.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. xiv, 219 p. w/footnotes, tables, bibliography, index. The first serious study of Henry IV's relationship with the towns of France - Catholic, Royalist, and Protestant.

L'Imprimerie Fasse, 1989.. Trade Paperback. Good. Good softcover in blue wrapper. Wear and light rubbing along the edges of the covers with some scuffing. Stainmark on the front cover and wear along the spine also. Clean, unmarked text. 121 pages with notes and a few illustrations. Text of this work is in French.

Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. First edition. softcover with illustrated cover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Some marginal nots in ink in the bibliography. 365 p. w/ tables, maps, footnotes, bibliography, index. A study of some some 3,725 collective and violent rebellions and the reactions to them by the police, seen as inseparable from the development and of the police themselves.

London: Jones and Co. , 1827. Leather Bound Hardcover. Very good. 2 Very good half leather octavo hardcovers with with marbeled boards, edges, and endpapers. Some wear to edges and corners of set, with slight spotting and scuffing to the leather covers. and spine Red and black labels on spine, with 5 raised bands. Gilt spine designs still bright and attractive. Both volumes have illustrated title pages with tissue leaves intact, in addition to the plain ones, noting publications by Jones and Co. Vol. 1's plain title page is undated, notes publication byby George Virtue, Seventh ed. V. 2 is dated 1827, and notes publication by Jones, Sixth edition. The unillustrated title pages are very similar, but with some differences in type at the botom of the page. Both volumes have frontispieces, v. 2 has the cameo of Napoleon. This work caused a scandal, as O'Meara blamed the British Governor of St Helena, Hudson Lowe, of mistreating the Emperor. A classic work of Napoleonic history in an attractive binding.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Dust jacket has a small nick at foredge. 298 p. w/ footnotes, maps, appendices, bibliography, index.

Paris: Fayard, 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Ink marks and marginalia in bibliography ONLY. 700 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. Entirely in French.

London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Later printing. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges of boards, No dust jacket issued. Top corners bumped. Underlining and ink marks in bibliography ONLY. xi, 350 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index.

New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1997. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Good. Thick, small quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners. All 4 corners at foredge bumped. Slight scuffing and a few marks at edges of textblock. Some check marks in pencil at margins. xii, 591 p. w/endnotes, b&w illus., name & subject indexes. includes discussion of the land, cathedrals, court, Tour de France, monuments, books (notably Proust), street names, gastronomy, and more.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Missing dust jacket. Front baord has 3" long indientation to front cover at top right. xxiii, 428 o. w/mapos, tables, graphs, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index. Section B

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Missing dust jacket. 151 p. w/bibliography, index, 2 fold out illus. of the marriage procession of Napoleon and Marie-Louise, and an appendix of Wellington's letter of restitution of works of art from the Louvre. Section B