Discours Prononcé aux Jacobins, sur la question suivante: Que Faut-Il Faire Dans Les Circonstances Actuelles?... by anon - 1791?

Paris: Bellizard Et Compagnie. Good. 1835. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Leather spines, raised bands with gilt decorated panels. Clean marbled boards with front leather protected corners. Texts tight, clean & intact. Vol. #1, 422 pp. , has an illustrated fold out "Plan De La Salle", Vol. #2, 408pp. French text. The author, a French general and historian, works include: Histoire de Napoleon et de la Grande Armee pendant l'anee 1812, 1824; Histoire de Russie et de Pierre le Grand, 1829. Provenance note: Heraldic book plate inside front cover, "AFC" initials beneath crown. Front hinges of both volumes cracked with covers firmly attached. Spine leather with delicate network of fine cracks. France; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1230 pages .

London: Richard Bentley, 1853. 2 Vol. 3/4 Leather over marbled paper covered boards, and eppr. First English edition of Alexandrine des Echerolles' memoirs of the Revolution in France. Alexandrine des Echerolles (La Ferte Hauterive, south of Moulins-Allier) was 13 y.o. when the Revolution forced her father, aunt and brothers to take refuge in Lyon. Her father had been elected colonel of the National Guards at Moulins, but when he was threatened with imprisonment he fled to Lyon then Switzerland, and left his daughter in the care of his sister. The aunt was murdered by the revolutionary court for refusing to reveal where her brother was living, and Alexandrine found herself alone, and relied on family and relations to taker her in.

Paris: Author, 1862, 1863. First edition. 1862-63 TWO VOLUME ILLUSTRATED FRENCH GUIDE TO PRUNING FRUIT TREES BY PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF PARIS. Two 9 inches tall hardcover volumes, contemporary 1/2 red calf with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, over 300 wood engravings in text. Edges of covers rubbed, spines sunned, light foxing, dampstaining to preliminary pages of vol. 2. Overall good+. Vol. 1 contains chapters on pruning apple and pear trees; vol. 2 covers peach, apricots, prunes, berries, and grapes. In custom archival mylar covers.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

This is an excellent and well illustrated history of Napoleon. Bound in full leather, it is a fine example of the very collectable books of Easton Press.

Paris: Bellizard Et Compagnie. Good. 1835. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Leather spines, raised bands with gilt decorated panels. Clean marbled boards with front leather protected corners. Texts tight, clean & intact. Vol. #1, 422 pp. , has an illustrated fold out "Plan De La Salle", Vol. #2, 408pp. French text. The author, a French general and historian, works include: Histoire de Napoleon et de la Grande Armee pendant l'anee 1812, 1824; Histoire de Russie et de Pierre le Grand, 1829. Provenance note: Heraldic book plate inside front cover, "AFC" initials beneath crown. Front hinges of both volumes cracked with covers firmly attached. Spine leather with delicate network of fine cracks. France; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1230 pages .

London: Richard Bentley, 1853. 2 Vol. 3/4 Leather over marbled paper covered boards, and eppr. First English edition of Alexandrine des Echerolles' memoirs of the Revolution in France. Alexandrine des Echerolles (La Ferte Hauterive, south of Moulins-Allier) was 13 y.o. when the Revolution forced her father, aunt and brothers to take refuge in Lyon. Her father had been elected colonel of the National Guards at Moulins, but when he was threatened with imprisonment he fled to Lyon then Switzerland, and left his daughter in the care of his sister. The aunt was murdered by the revolutionary court for refusing to reveal where her brother was living, and Alexandrine found herself alone, and relied on family and relations to taker her in.

Paris: Author, 1862, 1863. First edition. 1862-63 TWO VOLUME ILLUSTRATED FRENCH GUIDE TO PRUNING FRUIT TREES BY PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF PARIS. Two 9 inches tall hardcover volumes, contemporary 1/2 red calf with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, over 300 wood engravings in text. Edges of covers rubbed, spines sunned, light foxing, dampstaining to preliminary pages of vol. 2. Overall good+. Vol. 1 contains chapters on pruning apple and pear trees; vol. 2 covers peach, apricots, prunes, berries, and grapes. In custom archival mylar covers.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

This is an excellent and well illustrated history of Napoleon. Bound in full leather, it is a fine example of the very collectable books of Easton Press.