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MEMOIRES D'OUTRE-TOMBE
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MEMOIRES D'OUTRE-TOMBE

by Chateaubraind (Francois Rene) Viscount-

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Paris: Eugene Et Victor Penaud. Very Good. 1849-50. Hardcover. The original edition was published in 12 volumes between 1849 - 1850 by Eugene & Victor Penaud, Paris. This set does not contain advertisements nor list of subscribers. The authenticity warning is present. Clean marbled boards. Elegant green and honey ribbed leather spines have double ruled gilt borders separating the panels and gilt titles. Texts are tight, clean & intact with sporadic foxing. 19th Century French Literature. French text. Rare Section ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 5381 pages .
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Annales des Mines, Mémoires sur l'exploitation des mines/Ducets/Tables des  Matieres Et sur les...
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Annales des Mines, Mémoires sur l'exploitation des mines/Ducets/Tables des Matieres Et sur les sciences et les arts qui s'y rattachment

by Dunod, H., E. Pinat, et al

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Quarter red calf. Approximately 151 volumes uniformly bound in a very attractive, yet sturdy quarter red calf for J.M.B. (at foot of spine) about 1920. Numerous fold-out plates. All volumes remarkably supple & durable without the expected defects. ; Includes Decrets, Memoires, Indices; 8vo ; Ducrets: Vol. I (1862) - vol. X (1871) Sixieme Serie (complete - 10 )Vol. I (1872) - vol. III (1874), IV, V, VI + VII, VIII + vol. IX (1880), X (1881) Septieme Serie (complete - 10)Vol. I (1882) - vol. VI (1887) + vol. VIII (1889) - vol.X (1891) Huitieme Serie (8 volumes)Vol. I (1892) - vol. X (1901) Neuvieme Serie (complete -- 10)Vol. I (1902) - vol. X (1911) Dixieme Serie (complete -- 10)Vol. I (1912), II (1913), III (1914) Onziemie Serie (3 volumes)Memoires: Vol. I, II (1862) - vol. III, IV (1863) + vol. IX, X (1866) - vol. XI, XII (1867)Vol. XV, XVI (1869) - vol. XVII, XVIII (1870) - vol. XIX (1871) SixiemeSerie (13 volumes)Vol. I, II (1872) + vol. IV, V… Read More
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Histoire des Finances Sous la Minorité de Louis XV. Pendant les années 1719 &...
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Histoire des Finances Sous la Minorité de Louis XV. Pendant les années 1719 & 1720. Précedée D’un Abrégé de la Vie du Duc Regent, & du sur Sr.Law.

by MARMONT DU HAUTCHAMP, Barthélémy

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[MARMONT DU HAUTCHAMP, Barthélémy]
Histoire des Finances Sous la Minorité de Louis XV. Pendant les années 1719 & 1720. Précedée D'un Abrégé de la Vie du Duc Regent, & du sur Sr.Law. Tome Premier – Tome Sixieme.
La Haye, chez Pierre du Hondt 1739
Twelvemo, 6 volumes bound in 3 volumes, 16.2 x 9.3cm, small octavo, very fine contemporary continental mottled calf, spines richly gilt with fleur-de-lys, red and blue morocco labels lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, leaf edges marbled, original silk page markers, pp. LIV-204 + (2) blank; (2) + 312 + (2) blank; (2) + 208 + (2) blank; (2) + 286 + (4) blank; (14) + 294 + (4) blank; (18) + 246 + (2) blank, complete with 2 folding tables in volume VI of Billets de Banque...faits en consequence des Arréts...1719-1720 printed on both sides, and the engraved plate Admiré la force in volume IV, titles printed in red and black with printers woodcut devices, woodcut decoration to chapter openings and endings, woodcut initials, insignificant scuffing to back… Read More
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Le Siecle de Louis XIV
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Le Siecle de Louis XIV

by Voltaire (Monsieur de Francheville / Francois-Marie Arouet)

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Berlin: C.F. Henning, 1751. 1st Edition . Very Good. 3.75 x 6 inches (9.5 x 15 cm). Complete in two volumes. Full calf leather bindings, red leather title labels and gilt decoration to spines. Good solid bindings. Volume one has light rippling to the pages and foxing up to page 3, hole to front free endpaper and three small holes to leading blank, Volume II is very clean throughout. Engraved bookplate to front endpapers (Charles Grave Hudson - 1st Baronet Hudson, of Wanlip Hall, Leicestershire.) The first edition of one of Voltaire's most important works, a landmark in the development of historiography, published under the alternative pseudonym M. de Francheville. A very nice example. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 3.75 x 6 inches (9.5 x 15 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 12mo. [14], 488, [1] (Errata) + [2], 466, [2] (Errata)
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Kitab sirat Napoleon al awwal (histoire de l'empereur Napoleon I)
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Kitab sirat Napoleon al awwal (histoire de l'empereur Napoleon I)

by Le colonel C D H L Calligaris

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Paris: Pilloy et Ce, 1856 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. ARABIC TEXT, FIRST EDITION. HALF TITLE PAGE IN ARABIC AND FRENCH WITH OWNERSHIP OF HABIB GHARZOUZI (A CHRISTIAN ARAB NATIONALIST WHO JUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF DJAMAL PASHA IN ALEYH, LEBANON), FRONTISPIECE OF NAPOLEON, TITLE PAGE IN ARABIC AND FRENCH, 7 PP OF PREFACE IN FRENCH, HALF TITLE PAGE IN ARABIC, 11 PP INTRODUCTION IN ARABIC, 584 PP IN ARABIC. CONTEMPORARY HARD COVER WITH SMALL TEARS, PARTLY SCUFFED AND FOXED. FIRST HALF TITLE PAGE AND FRONTIS LOOSED, BINDING ALMOST LOOSE. INSIDE IS FRESH AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION..
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Autograph note signed.

Autograph note signed.

by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Framed and authenticated by Charles Hamilton with his seal affixed to the backing paper. Felt-lined frame with raised platform for the note and recessed Georges Lay bronze medal of Renoir above. Note shows adhesive bleed at corners; medal has been paper-taped to the back. On letterhead of the Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes: "Monsieur, J'ai recu votre amiable lettre et je serai heureux de lire votre petit roman pour faire connaissance avec vous. Recevez mes salutations meilleures. Renoir 23 Septembre 1913" (Sir, I received your amiable letter and I will be happy to read your little novel to get to know you. Receive my best regards.); 12mo 11 x 17 cm; ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Album d'Articles de Voyages d'après les Modèles de Messieurs Godillot Père et Fils, Brèvetès...
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Album d'Articles de Voyages d'après les Modèles de Messieurs Godillot Père et Fils, Brèvetès Malletiers du Roi

by GODILLOT

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Paris: Fabrique Générale d'Articles de Voyages, 1840. First Edition. Alexis Godillot (1816-1893) was a contemporary of Louis Vuitton (1821-1892) and first achieved renown in Paris for his beautiful hand-made luggage. With a workshop situated just a few blocks away from Vuitton's, this catalogue comes from this very early period of Godillot's life before he had revolutionised footwear by differentiating the moulding of the left shoe from the right and become the famous shoemaker who would go on to equip over one hundred thousand French soldiers for The Crimean War. 'Godillot' remains a slang French term for 'boot' to this day. The album features superb hand-coloured lithographs with an original sketch showcasing nearly one hundred accessories including bags, picnic baskets, apparel, wonderful old trunks, tents, and hammocks- true 'objets nomades' - many of which are in surprisingly bold and modern designs. A beautiful, rare, and precious catalogue of the articles a traveller might require for… Read More
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Falbalas and Franfreluches

Falbalas and Franfreluches

by Barbier, George

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Paris: Meynial, 1925. First Edition. George Barbier. A complete and excellent set of the five annual issues illustrated with a total of sixty beautiful pochoir plates, complete with decorated pochoir title pages. 'Falbalas and Franfreluches' (Frippery and Finery: Fashion Diaries) represents a literary and artistic collaboration of unusual elegance and sophistication. French illustrator, George Barbier (1882 - 1932) spared no effort in the making of this beautiful collection, using the finest pigments and up to thirty stencils per print to create images of the highest quality reflecting fashionable themes of the day. The plates portray romance amidst exotic lands and ages past, including a native American idyll on the Missouri, a languid mistress cocooned in a hammock in the tropical Antilles, high baroque debauchery, and, of course, a myriad of lovers depicted in Paris at the height of the chic 1920s. Each annual includes twelve pages of fine writing by Barbier's contemporaries in the Parisian scene… Read More
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Ensemble complet des archives du Chevalier de Sade
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Ensemble complet des archives du Chevalier de Sade

by SADE Louis, Chevalier de

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s.l.|(Londres,|Paris,|Toulon...), 1791. Fine. s.l. (Londres, Paris, Toulon...) 1791-1832, 12 000 feuillets de divers formats, en feuilles. - Exceptionnel ensemble des archives manuscrites inédites et complètes de Louis, Chevalier de Sade (1753-1832), auteur du Lexicon politique et cousin du Divin Marquis représentant environ 12 000 feuillets manuscrits dont plusieurs milliers inédits et écrits de sa main. Le Chevalier y expose un système de pensée de type «?holistique?», comprenant à la fois des réflexions historiques, politiques et scientifiques. Précieuses archives géopolitiques, historiques et scientifiques d'un aristocrate érudit, témoin privilégié de la fin de l'Ancien Régime, de la Révolution française, du Consulat, de l'Empire et de la Restauration. Fonds unique de recherches sur la mise en place d'une monarchie constitutionnelle. Si l'on regarde la Révolution Française comme la naissance de l'expérimentation de l'idéologie laïque et… Read More
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Unpublished manuscript by Emile Zola. The only one regarding the Dreyfus Affair while on his...

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[DREYFUS AFFAIR] ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902)
Unpublished autograph manuscript, signed " Emile Zola "[Grosvenor Hotel, London, 19 July 1898], 5 pages in-4 on ligned paperFold marks, small hole at the folding junction on 5th folio, without affecting the text

Unpublished manuscript on the Dreyfus AffairWritten six months after his open letter "J'accuse…!" and directly in its continuity, this momentous manuscript testifies to the writer's tireless commitment to the cause of Captain Alfred Dreyfus

" La vérité aveuglante est pourtant que ce sont nos adversaires qui, dès le premier jour, et pas les moyens les plus monstrueux, se sont efforcés et s'efforcent encore de nous fermer violemment la bouche. […] De toute ma lettre au président de la République [" J'accuse…! "], on avait extrait savamment quelques lignes, limitant les poursuite uniquement pour empêcher la vérité de se faire jour sur l'affaire Dreyfus. Le plan était de me condamner tout en me bâillonnant. et l'on se souvient du terrible… Read More
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Roy de France et de Navarre, dans l’église de Reims, le 25 octobre 1722.
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Roy de France et de Navarre, dans l’église de Reims, le 25 octobre 1722.

by LE SACRE DE LOUIS XV,

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N.p. [Paris], 1731.
Imperial folio, blue morocco with a wide gilt dentelle around the covers, gilt arms stamped in the center, spine ribbed and decorated with stars, fleurs-de-lys and crowned monogram, inner gilt border, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
630 x 465 mm.
33 ll. of engraved text, 1 engraved folded l. for the table, 1 frontispiece, 9 double-page plates by Audran, Beauvais, Cochin père, Desplaces, Duchange, Dupuis, Larmessin, Tardieu, Edelinck, Chereau, Drevet, Haussard and Petit
and 30 plates of costumes.
"Splendid work, entirely engraved… bound in a superb binding by Padeloup decorated with a wide gilt dentelle on the covers and with the arms and the crowned monogram of Louis XV".
Catalogue Rahir, Première Partie n°220.
A magnificent volume.
The text, written by Danchet, is decorated with rich frames, cartouches and engraved fleurons by Ulin.
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A large unsigned frontispiece-cartouche.
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Le Livre des Statuts & ordonnances de l’ordre Sainct Michel, estably par le treschrestien Roy...
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Le Livre des Statuts & ordonnances de l’ordre Sainct Michel, estably par le treschrestien Roy de France Loys unzieme de ce nom… Institution de l’office de Prevost et maistre des ceremonies, avec autres statuts & ordonnances sur le faict dudit ordre.

by [ORDRE DE SAINT MICHEL].

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N. p. [Paris], circa 1550.
4to [216 x 154 mm] of (40) ll. (A-K4), the last one bl. Full limp fawn morocco called "from Constantinople", with the arms and symbols of Henri II, double blind and gilt-stamped fillet around the covers with gilt fleur-de-lys in the corners, royal gilt arms of Diane in the center with the presence of the crescent moon, gilt bows on the four inner corners, gilt quivers on the center of each side on the edge of the framing, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and gilt fleur-de-lys, gilt edges, stains and usual restorations at the head and foot of the spine and at the corners. Contemporary binding with arms.
The struggle with Charles V:

In an attempt to gather the nobility with the monarchy and more importantly to fight against the appeal of the Order of the Golden Fleece founded by the Burgundian Dukes, Louis XI founded the French Order of Saint Michael, enacted its 66 rules at Plessis-lez-Tours during his meeting in Péronne, on August 1, 1469, with… Read More
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De la Théorie de la Manœuvre des vaisseaux.
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De la Théorie de la Manœuvre des vaisseaux.

by [RENAU D’ELISSAGARAY, Bernard].

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Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1689.
In-8 de (6) ff. dont un frontispice, 117 pp., 25 pl. dépliantes hors texte. Maroquin rouge, triple filet doré sur les plats, dos lisse orné à la grotesque, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, coupes décorées, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées. Reliure ancienne.
175 x 115 mm.
Édition originale rare du meilleur livre du " célèbre marin de Louis XIV ", ornée d'un titre frontispice dessiné et gravé par F. Ertinger représentant un galion devant une ville fortifiée et de 25 planches dépliantes de technique de navigation.
Polak, 8108.
Baptisé à Armandaritz (Pyrénées Atlantiques) en 1652, mort à Pougues les Eaux en 1719, Renau d'Elissagaray fut remarqué par Duquesne avec lequel il travailla aux constructions navales à Brest.
" Il proposa un nouveau système de construction navale, que Vauban fit adopter et qu'il fut chargé de mettre en pratique. Un conflit ayant éclat en 1680 entre la France et le dey d'Alger, Renau proposa de bombarder la ville avec… Read More
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Antique Thaumatropes Set , c.1837 France ,  Trompe-l’oeil ou les plaisirs de Jocko
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Antique Thaumatropes Set , c.1837 France , " Trompe-l’oeil ou les plaisirs de Jocko "

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Exceptionally rare early thaumatrope collection. The set is complete with 24 discs housed in the publisher's box. Each disc has hand-colored engravings and tied silk strings. Distributed on the cusps of the Georgian and Victorian eras by Alphonse Giroux, Paris, 7 rue du Coq Saint-Honoré. In remarkable antique condition with astonishingly vivid colors and all strings attached.
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The collection includes an interpretation of Henry Fuseli's painting "The Nightmare" (1782) with a woman in a vivid green gown, sleeping on a chaise, a demon perched upon her breast. Also, Harlequin (or Arlequin), the theatrical devil, is depicted dancing. (A reference to Armand d'Artois' "folie-vaudeville" Le Sultan du Havre, and reminiscent of Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles.) There is also a classic depiction of Napoleon and of Aesop's vanity tale Fox and Crow. Represented fashions span eras and nationalities (see, for example, the courting couple in possibly Regency Era costume; masquerade lady; sword… Read More
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French Revolution Three Volume Set by Thomas Carlyle 1888 Hardcover Copyright Edition
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French Revolution Three Volume Set by Thomas Carlyle 1888 Hardcover Copyright Edition

by Thomas Carlyle

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French Revolution Three Volume Set. By Thomas Carlyle. 1888 Hardcover (Reprinted from stereotype plates February 1888). Used in Acceptable condition: Discolouration, aged, wear and tear. Copyright Edition. Published by Chapman and Hall. Vintage Collectible.
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