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Paris: Mame et Delaunay-Vallee, 1829. half leather. Very Good. Two volumes in one, 8vo, 5 x 8, 422 and 392 pages. One-inch tear at the top of the front hinge; back strip additionally chipped, but still very presentable. Exterior of the boards are marbleized. Bookplate of "Lord Dinorbin" (apparently the owner of Welsh coal mines) on FEP. Interior bright with very little (if any) foxing.
Traite de la Gangrene by Francois Quesnay - 1771
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Traite de la Gangrene
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Francois Quesnay (1694 â€" 1774), French economist and physician He became consulting physician to Louis XV, who installed him in the Palace of Versailles Louis esteemed Quesnay highly, and referred to him as "his thinker" 507 pp.
Francois Quesnay (1694 â€" 1774), French economist and physician He became consulting physician to Louis XV, who installed him in the Palace of Versailles Louis esteemed Quesnay highly, and referred to him as "his thinker" 507 pp.
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Memoires de Madame le Marquise de Montespan
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HISTOIRE DE MARIE ANTOINETTE (2 VOLUMES COMPLETE)
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Paris: Perrin et Cie., 1892. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 1- xvi + 596 pages. Frontis illustration with tissue. Vol. 2- 596 pages. 5 x 7 1/4 in. "Bound by Blackwell" stamped on back corner of ffep. Blue half morocco binding with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, 5 raised bands, top edge of text block gilt, end papers marbled. Condition of each volume is VERY GOOD: light wear to covers and spines, corners bent, spine of Vol. 1 cracking near top- small piece missing from spine of Vol. 2 near bottom. Boards lightly worn, edges of text block yellowed and lightly foxed, light foxing to first and last few pages, pages clean, bindings fine, small book plate of David B. Ogden on inside of front cover.
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Marie Antoinette and Her Son
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D. Appleton and Company, 1867. 301 pages.. Complete in one volume, with illustrations. Solid. Double column pages. Slight wear.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Historical Fiction.
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DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE, TOPOGRAPHIQUE ET MILITAIRE DE TOUSLES ENVIRONS DE PARIS (WITH MAP) )
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Paris: Charles Louis Fleury. Panckoucke. Good+. 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Half leather with marbled boards. (i-iv) 647pp. Interior of text Is clean without foxing. Marbled page edges. Gilt title on spine. 2 book plates of previous owners. Historical & Topographical Guide of Paris including surrounding towns, villages and castles. Military facts, historical events and industry. Topographic fold out map designed by Henry Guillot. Front hinge is cracked & re-enforced with archival hinging tape. Scuffed boards, spine ends and front corners rubbed. Paris Guide, France; Map; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 647 pages .
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Costumes Francais de 1200 a 1715: French Costumes from 1200 to 1715
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Good copy of this pocket book of French fashion.Complete with 100 lithographs by George Scharf from original fashion plates by Hippolyte Lecomte in Costumes civils et militaires de la monarchie francaise.Subjects include Joan of Arc, Bloody Mary, Queen of Scots, Ninon de Lenclos, many French kings and queens, courtiers, mistresses, soldiers, knights, politicians and admirals, from five centuries of French history.Published by famous London printer and lithographer Charles Hullmandel (1789-1850). Hullmandel was a prolific publisher and instrumental in many major improvements to lithography in the 1820s and 1830s. Lithographer George Scharf (1788-1860) was a Bavarian-born artist and one of the best lithographers operating in London at the time. Pigskin spine cracking on front hinge, marble boards scuffed and grubby, title page with smudges at top, but all other 99 plates clean and bright.
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France under Louis XIV (Le Grand Siecle) Its arts - its ideas.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. See Description. Large 4to. pp. XVI, xxvii, [1], 470, [2]. With 22 portraits engraved on copper and 33 full page illustrations including the frontispiece. Hundreds of illustrations with the text. Plates have tanned or browned with age. The plate opposite p. 62 has a chipped outer edge. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration - a garland surrounding the crown of France inside ornate borders. The endpapers are similarly decorated. Some wear at the head and tail of the spine. Corners a bit bumped. All edges gilt. Interesting picture book illustrating this period of French history and culture.
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The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud in a Series of Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London Written During the Months of August, September and October, 1805
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London: H.S Nichols & Co, 1895. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies. In two volumes, 324, 281pp. "The writer of the letters (whose name is said to have been Stewarton, and who had been a friend of the Empress Josephine in her happier, if less brilliant days) gives full accounts of the lives of nearly all Napoleon's Ministers and Generals, in addition to those of a great number of other characters, and an insight into th inner life of those who formed Napoleon's Court"., bound in blue cloth, central gilt arms, spine lettering gilt, top edge cut all others uncut, brown coated endpapers, publisher's notice tipped in to both volumes at front. A very nice, clean bright set.
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Notes sur Paris. Vie et opinions de M. Frédéric-Thomas Graindorge,... recueillies et publiées par H. Taine, son exécuteur testamentaire
by Taine, Hippolyte-Adophe, 1828-1893
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Paris: L. Hachette, 1867. First Edition. Octavo. viiii, 416p. Beautifully bound by Devauchelle in rich red morocco over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. Taine had a profound effect on French literature; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica asserted that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's. His Notes on Paris are among the most important of his works on the "City of Light
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A Popular History of France from The First Revolution to the Present Time - Three Volumes
by Martin, Henri; Translated by Mary L Booth and A L Alger
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Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E Lauriat, 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. A DeNeuville, Leopold Flaming, G Staal, Viollat, Philippoteaux, Lienard, and others. I, II, III Three volume hardcover set in good to very good condition. Solid boards with tiny- pebbled maroon leather cover and deeper maroon corners and spine edged in gold gilt. Decorative raised bands on spine with a section used for title, a section used for author and volume, rest of bands with decorative scroll. Vol I has gold printing / decoratives well rubbed and off along most of center of spine; Vol II and Vol III still quite crisp and clear. Rubbing and wear along corners and extremities. Vol I has a section of front board with area of ""blotch"" - as if someone had rubbed too hard when cleaning. Marbled endpapers in all volumes in orange, blue, and maroon. All Volumes have a bookplate pasted on verso of front board but no handwriting or previous ownership noted. All edges marbled with orange, blue, and maroon,…
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JOURNAL DES SCIENCES MILITAIRES
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This listing is for all 12 monthly volumes of this French military review which resumed publication with the January, 1872 issue under a new director general, J. Dumaine.OTHER FULL YEAR ISSUES AVAILABLE.
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Traité de la gangrene.
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1764. Paris, Veuve d'Houry, 1764. 8°. 4 n.n. Bl., 507 S. Lederband der Zeit mit rotem Rückenschild und floraler Rückenvergoldung. Wellcome IV, 455. - Blake 368. - Titelauflage des erstmals 1749 erschienenen Werkes. - Besitzvermerk auf dem Titel. Einbanddeckel am Rücken leicht angerissen.
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Traité De La Gangrène
by QUESNAY, [François] [1694-1774]
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Paris: DHoury, 1749., 1749. 12mo. pp. 4 p.l., 507. contemporary calf, gilt back (binding somewhat worn, spine label wanting, margins of 2 leaves cropped, else internally very good). First Edition of this medical treatise on gangrene and its treatment. The author, who is better known as the founder of the Physiocratic School of economics, was physician to Louis XV. Blake p. 368.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
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Chantilly au XVIIIe Siecle.
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Paris Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire, 39391925, paperback. Text in FRENCH. -- Social history focused on gardens, castles, visitors. Includes 40 plates. 121 pages, 9x11.5 inches. Large softcover. Condition: very good (cover light soil; binding bit fragile).
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The History of Madame Roland: With Engravings
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The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of Madame Roland, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eight B&W engravings are intact, including frontispiece. (Plate on page 97 has a deckled bottom edge.)Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with slight wear on heel and top. Pages are age tanned and have small stains. Two of the pages are uncut.All four endpapers are significantly discolored with a black waxy substance (see photos), something like crayon.
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The Life of Fenelon Archbishop of Cambray
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Baltimore, Philip H. Nicklin, 1811. Hard Cover. 236 p.; 19.5 cm. Biography of François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715), French theologian and educator and author of Télémachus in the early Republic and used to teach a moral life to a couple of generations of young Americans. American Imprints 22455a. This is an untrimmed copy in the original printed boards; paper spine almost entirely perished, wear to front cover; now protected in a clamshell box. Stock#OB113.
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Discours de M. Soulès à la tribune de la société des amis de la constitution...
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[Paris? 1791?]. Soft Cover. 7, [1] pages; 19 cm. Caption title. Added title: "sur la grande question de savoir quelle manière l'Assemblée nationale devroit agir envers le roi: discours qui fut interrompu par M. Biozat, député de Clermont en Auvergne, sous précé The 6th of a collection of 40 Royalist and contre revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Waterstain lower corner. Stock#OB1042-6. Vg / in marbled paper wrapper.
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Discours Prononcé aux Jacobins, sur la question suivante: Que Faut-Il Faire Dans Les Circonstances Actuelles?...
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Soft Cover. 8 p.; 20 cm. Caption title. Royalist tract in favor of retaining the monarchy. Martin & Walter, IV, 5838. One of a collection of 40 Royalist and contre revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Vg/ in marbled paper wrappers. Stock#OB1042-4.
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No. 246. Nouvelles Politiques et Littéraires de l'Europe du Dimanche 3 Juin 1792. Séance de Vendredi soir
by France. Assemblée nationale législative (1791-1792) Corps Administratifs. Tardiveau, François-Alexandre, 1761-1833
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Paris, Chez Perlet, 1792. Du Dimanche 3 Juin 1792. Séance de Vendredi soir. The contemporary French collector of the volume into which this piece was bound was interested in the full account of the fête for Jacques Guillaume Simonneau, "né 1740 à Étampes et mort assassin lors d'une émeute frumentaire le 3 mars 1792." "Simonneau est un industriel marchand-tanneur et maire d'Étampes de 1791-1792. Suite son assassinat, l'Assemblée législative fait célébrer en sa mémoire une Fête de la Loi le 3 juin 1792 à Paris"-- Wikipedia. One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1041-17. Soft Cover. Pages [17]-24; 21 cm. Caption title; imprint at end. In marbled paper wrappers.
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Comptes En Finances, à Rendre par l'Assemblée Nationale, Avant Sa Séparation et Sous Sa Responsabilité...
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[Paris?] 1791. Soft Cover. 22 pages; 20 cm. "Par un homme qui fait bien ses comptes, qui vend ses propriétés pour payer; mais qui veut qu'on lui rende compte." This edition not in Martin & Walter (cf. IV 2: 3693). "Il existe une autre impression in-8 de ce texte datée de 1791, avec une pagination différente (23, [1] p.), ainsi qu'une impr. in-4 de 14, [2bl.] p." One of a collection of 40 Royalist and contre-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1042-1. VG / in marbled paper warapper.
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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Trois semaines en voyage, France, Bords du Rhin, Belgique
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Rouen: Maison Mégard & Cie, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo (19 x 11 cm). 212 pp. Green pressed covers with gilt decorations to upper, lower and spine. Gilt titles to spine. Light wear to to corners, edges and spine. Yellow endpapers, text block tight and unmarked. Foxing to title page, less to text block. In French. OCLC 456900773 Notice et cote du catalogue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France FRBNF30067775.
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The Little Juggler and Other French Tales Retold
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771HigginsJuggler Higgins, Violet Moore. THE LITTLE JUGGLER and Other French Tales Retold. Story-Time Tales. 1917, Whitman Publishing Company Racine and Chicago. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included if issued. 70 pages 6 ½ X 8 5/8. A nice copy.
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