Category: French History

Les Bourbons Peints par Eux-Mêmes, ou Entrée de la Famille Royale en France

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Janet

Seller ID: 005872

Scarce, with only known copy in BNF -- no other copies found on OCLC First Search. N.d., circa 1816. Near miniature, 112 by 62 mm. 80 pp. Seven copper engraved portrait plates of the Bourbons restored to power following the Congress of Vienna. This quintessential lady's pocket book -- it resembles with its slipcase and other aspects the pretty almanacs produced by Janet, the publisher here, and Le Fuel during the Restoration period. This was seems to be a souvenir and celebration of the Restoration, and we have to think it was issued early during the period when hopes ran high and disill...
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Reponse de M. de Calonne a L'Ecrit de M. Necker, Publie en Avril 1787; Contenant L'Examen des Comptes de la Situation des Finances Rendus en 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 & 1787: Avec des Observations sur les Resultats de L'Assembee des Notables

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Londres, T. Spilsbury : Janvier 1788

Seller ID: 002414

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Minus

8vo. xvi, 424 pp. An account of Calonne's administration. Spine has gilt embossed "II" below title, suggesting that this was previously paired with Necker's writing. However, the volume is complete in terms of the given title. (There are no folding tables, as in a larger format version.) Upper spine extremity a bit chewed, with small pinprick hole beneath. Scuffing and wear to leather elsewhere. Light scattered soiling within.
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Original Signed Drawings by Robert Cruikshank [for] Chronicles of the Bastille

By: Cruikshank, Robert

Price: $7,500.00

Publisher: London, : 1845

Seller ID: 003200

Binding: Full Morocco. Cloth Slipcase.

Condition: Fine

4to. 27 by 20 cm. The Chronicles of the Bastille, Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, first appeared in 1845 and featured Cruikshank's drawings. The twelve signed watercolors here are dated 1844 or1845. Also, embedded into the back of the front cover is the steel plate used to make the steel engraved title page of the novel. As a title page an engraved copy of this plate is used. On the backs, and sometimes in the margins, are light pencil notes that serve as captions for the watercolors and provide information as to placement in the book. It is unknown whether these notes were preliminary to the...
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Image for Costumes des Représentans du Peuple Français. Membres des deux Conseils, du Directoir Executif des Ministres, des Tribunaux, des Messagers d’État, Hussiers, et autres Fonctionaires Publics.

Costumes des Représentans du Peuple Français. Membres des deux Conseils, du Directoir Executif des Ministres, des Tribunaux, des Messagers d’État, Hussiers, et autres Fonctionaires Publics.

By: de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques Grasset

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, E. Harding : 1797

Seller ID: 005315

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 21 by 14 cm. Title with hand-colored illustration of the Conseil de Cinq-Cent, followed by fifteen hand-colored costume plates of French officialdom. Uncommon in print form, and that includes its prior French issue by Duroy, which was issued a year or two prior to this copy. Bound by Riviere & Sons in full green/brown morocco. Small chip at spine head. Wear at spine base. Sunning of leather, with browning of spine and around joints. First few plates with marginal smoke soiling, and first two plates with edge wear and some brittleness.
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Le Plutarque Francais, Vies des Hommes et Femmes Illustres de la France, Ave Leurs Portraits en pied; publié par Ed. Mennechet. (8 Volumes)

By: Dumas, Alexandre, et. al. Edited by Eduoard Mennechet

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, L'Imprimerie de Crapelet : 1835-1841

Seller ID: 004583

Binding: Quarter Morocco. Marbled Boards.

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. 26.5 by 18 cm. 192 hand-colored engraved plates starting with Clovis and continuing on to the Napoleonic era, with the final portrait being of Eugene de Beauharnais. This is then a chronological presentation of the most important French personages -- monarchs, courtiers, warriors, poets, essayists and novelists, artists, saints, scientists, politicians, etc. The portraits accompany biographies of the individuals. Other than Napoleon, these articles run six to sixteen double columned pages, and so the treatments are most certainly not superficial glosses as one might find in a typical...
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Three Works of Montorgueil and Job bound in a single volume: France Son Histoire. La Cantiniere France Son Histoire. Les Trois Couleurs.

By: Montorgueil, Georges. Illustrator: Job [ [Jacque Onfray de Breville]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Paris, Charavay, Martoux (the first two works). Charavay, Martin (the third work). Edouard Crete, printer.

Seller ID: 002783

Binding: Half Morocco, Marbled Boards.

Condition: Good

Folio, 14 by 11.5 inches, 36 by 30 cm. N.d., circa 1900. Rebacked, with the original morocco spine mounted onto skiver. The skiver, though, being a different shade of red, is conspicuous along the entire front joint, and at the lower end in particular, the reattachment looks clumsy. The leather of the spine has heavily rubbed, with dry chipping at the extremities. The leaves within are heavily age toned and a bit brittle, with some marginal chipping. A few tape repairs. The leaves of the three volumes are not exactly even, and so this comes off similar to many a sammelbund. Still, excel...
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Image for The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, . . . Exhibiting a Correct Account of the General Congress of Vienna, The Escape of Bonaparte from the Isle of Elba, the Flight of Louis XVIII from His Capital, the Defeat of Bonaparte at the Ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo, . . .

The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, . . . Exhibiting a Correct Account of the General Congress of Vienna, The Escape of Bonaparte from the Isle of Elba, the Flight of Louis XVIII from His Capital, the Defeat of Bonaparte at the Ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo, . . .

By: Nicholson, William

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Kelly : 1816

Seller ID: 003170

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Minus

Folio-sized. 40 by 26 cm. 583, [1] pp. With 22 hand-colored plates, mostly depicting uniformed military leaders, and monarchical leaders, on horseback. Detailed, contemporary history of the Napoleonic wars. A few minor tears to leaves. Occasional light soiling. Mostly clean. Calf is heavily stained and abraded. Joints repaired. Spine is dry. Nonetheless an attractive full leather binding. Ex-lib, with minor indicia thereof (a few light name stamps) in prelims.
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Histoire de Belle-Isle-en-Mer

By: R. P. François de Belle-Isle, Capucin, and R. P. le Gallen (also spelled "le Galen" on first title page).

Price: $2,750.00

Publisher: Belle Isle en Mer, : 1754, 1840

Seller ID: 006055

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Manuscript local history of Breton island written with a beautiful cursive hand, a beautiful watercolor of a shore panorama and a highly decorative title page. 4to. 25.5 by 19 cm. 650 pp. (325 leaves.) The watercolor is actually dated 1840, and this suggests strongly to us that the manuscript text was of this later date, and probably a copy of an earlier manuscript, especially since the ruling on the pages and the style of cursive is entirely consistent with that of the mid-19th century. Bound by Bauzonnet Trautz in full brown morocco, tooled turn-ins. Belle-Isle is in the Department o...
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Citizens

By: Schama, Simon

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1989

Seller ID: 002856

ISBN-13: 9780394559483

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Minor soiling to white cloth binding. Otherwise, tight and clean.
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The Life of Napoleon, A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, embellished with Thirty Engravings by George Cruikshank

By: [Cruikshank, George, illustrator], poem by W. Combe (author of Doctor Syntax)

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London, T. Tegg. Plummer and Brewis, printer : 1815

Seller ID: 005471

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 24 by 15 cm. 260 pp. With 30 hand-colored engravings by George Cruikshank. The copy has all first edition points cited by Tooley 151. Bound very handsomely by Worsfold, with gilt crown, "N" and beetle devices on boards and spine, dentelles bordering within, gilt edges. Joints repaired. Offsetting of plates. Pages have age toning. Occasional soil marks, and a few very minor chips or tiny closed tears. Otherwise a clean and tight copy.
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Category: French History