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1869135576Paris: Germer Bailliere 1869. viii 334p. marbled boards with banded Morocco spine heavily edgeworn interior pages very good with some foxing on outer pages. French history of English trade unions. Germer Bailliere unknown books
1894029963Paris: Calmann Levy 1894. 7e Ãdition. 454p. b/w illus. burgundy half-leather with marbled boards. Calmann Levy unknown books
1839290968Barcelona.: Imprenta Del Guardia Nacional. 1839. 1st Edition. Later maroon textured paper wraps. . Very good. 8vo. 21x12.5 cm. . Spanish text. weight: 0.3 lb. 12 engraved plates one folding map of Sweden and Denmark. Imprenta Del Guardia Nacional. paperback books
1842290007Lille. : L. Lefort. 1842 . 1st Edition. Green boards with elaborate gilt blindstamping. . Very good light wear to cover extremities spine title faded prize inscription bookplate to pastedown. 16mo. 14.2x9 cm. . French text. Quite scarce one copy found on WorldCat. weight:0.1 lb. Engraved frontis of two hunters falling over a cliff from and overturned carriage. L. Lefort. hardcover books
183114212Paris: L'Agence Generale pour la Defense de la Liberte Religieuse 1831. 8vo. viii 362 pp. <br><br>First edition. Contemporary blue paper-covered boards spine with gilt-stamped paper author and title labels; paper rubbed overall small area of front cover chewed spine with inked shelving number. Front free endpaper with institutional stamp; back free endpaper and pastedown with slip and pocket. Title-page with early inked inscription. Mild to moderate foxing. L'Agence Generale pour la Defense de la Liberte Religieuse hardcover books
1886183039Paris: J. Rouam 1886. Hardcover. VG- wear to boards overall with soiling/fading and corners bumped. Pages are very clean. Tan boards with brown cloth spine gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated title page with red and black lettering; 56 4 pp; bw illustrations. Series: Les artistes célèbres. Text is in French. Includes a list of the 20 engravings and a table of contents. J. Rouam hardcover books
1866790121866. BURTY Philippe. CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DES ARTS INDUSTRIES. Paris: Paul Ducrocq ca. 1866. 599 pp. 4to. half leather with cloth boards. With 100 wood engravings. Owner's pencil signature on first blank leaf. Good lower half of spine nearly detached 2 inch chip to crown joints rubbed. Light soil to moire endpapers. AEG. Decorative arts: ceramics porcelain metalwork stained glass decorative glass more. unknown books
189113133Bordeaux: Gounouilhou 1891. pamphlet. very good. 18pp. 8vo. Original green printed wrapper faded. Bordeaux: Gounouilhou 1891. Very good.<br/><br/> Gounouilhou unknown books
184611261London: W.E. Painter 1846. 8vo. 32 pp. <br><br>The prince de Joinville 18181900 warns against the gathering naval arms race caused by the introduction of steam-powered ships foreshadowing the naval arms race that occupied the great powers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age toned. Some soiling on title-page not obscuring text. W.E. Painter unknown books
1873010395Paris: Didier 1873. First Edition. Half Leather. VG. Bound in black half leatherraised bands marbelized boards. Solid copy. Didier unknown books
1866182060Paris.: Paul Ducrocq. 1866. Contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards gilt spine title and spine bands speckled edges patterned endpapers. . Very good moderate wear to boards neat owners ink inscription contents fine. . 8vo. 26.5x18 cm. . French text. Well illustrated history of handcrafted objects of art. Heavy book may require extra shipping Illustrated with 200 wood engravings. Paul Ducrocq. hardcover books
188390329Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique 1883. Hardcover. Good. 10 1008p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 17cm. Cover has no titling and is scuffed and somewhat worn. Light to moderate foxing. Modest staining in right margin on several pages. Lacks last 4 pages part of errata and addenda since bibliographic references identify this work as having 10 1012 pages. Arabic-French work. Title also in Arabic. <br/><br/> Imprimerie Catholique hardcover books
1807182006Paris.: Bossange Masson et Besson . 1807. 12th ed. . Contemporary full leather black spine bands blind ruled borders marbled endpapers. Very good inner hinges beginning to split. 12mo. 17x10.5 cm. . French text. Heavy set may require extra shipping. weight: 4.0 lb. 15 engraved full-page plates. Bossange, Masson et Besson . hardcover books
1813283262Ex Typis J. M. Galles: Venetiae 1813. Full Leather. Good binding. Account of the Council of Trent in accordance with the 17th century French ecclesiastic Philippe Chifflet vicar general of the archbishop of Besancon. In mottled calf with morocco label. The front hinge reinforced with old cloth tape and holding well. We locate less than 10 copies of this Venetian edition on OCLC with a single copy in the United States. Good binding. Venetiae unknown books
1893144795Paris: Galerie Georges Petit 1893. Hardcover. G- Well worn along all edges and corners; hinges are well intact and pages are generally good with only slight or occasionaly foxing. Maroon marbled paper boards maroon leather spine; gilt letters marbled flyleaves 105 pp. 17 BW plates. Text is in French. Title on spine: Collection de feu Madame Denain. Issued in conjunction with a two-day 1893 auction of these artwork pieces from the collection of Madame Denain. With a narrative introduction by Philippe Gille descriptions of the 219 lots and 17 BW plates showing some of the artwork mainly portratis or pieces of furniture. Tipped in at the rear is a card or ticket from the auction as well as a newspaper preview of the event in French. Interesting indeed. Galerie Georges Petit hardcover books
1828181411Paris.: Roret. 1828 . 19th century quarter calf over marbled boards marbled edges gilt spine title and decorations. A near fine copy in an attractive binding bookplate to pastedown. 16mo. 14x8.7 cm. . French text. A technical manual on the design of fireplaces and ventilation systems. weight: 0.4 lb. 4 folding plates with diagrams of stoves fireplaces boilers etc. Roret. hardcover books
1892149163Paris: A. Angouleme 1892. Softcover. Good. Original covers missing. Some age toning to text pages and some light foxing to some of the plates. Edges of text pages are brittle. Art museum ex-lib. with usual marks. Plain manila wraps with original 1892 publication sans covers bound in. 48 pp. followed by XXVI colored plates. Text in French. A publication of the Societe Archeologique et Historique de la Charente. This volume is about the ancient cemetery at Herpes near Courbillac in the Charente area Cognac region of France. In 1886 Philippe Delamain a merchant from Jarnac discovered a cemetery from the Merovingian period. Found in the excavation were an outstanding collection of weapons brooches jewellery and vases dating from the time when the Franks had settled in Herpes 5th-7th centuries AD. Delamain's collection was dispersed soon after its discovery but a significant proportion is in the British Museum. from Wikipedia This volume contains information about both the cemetery itself and about the items found there. The various essays were written by M. Le Baron J. De Baye M. Maurice Prou M. Deloche and M. Philippe Delamain himself. A. Angouleme paperback books
1881WRCLIT48942Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie. 1881. xiii3789pp. Large thick octavo. Contemporary three quarter morocco gilt extra t.e.g. Frontis plates woodcuts illustrations and decorations including four chromolithographs. First edition thus issue on ordinary paper. Binding rather rubbed and worn at extremities but sound two ink names internally very good. Firmin-Didot et Cie. unknown books
1829S8105Paris:: no publisher 1829. 1829. 4to. 391-510 pp. Light marginal foxing unopened. Rebound in half maroon cloth gilt stamped morocco spine label marbled boards. A fine copy. no publisher, 1829. hardcover books
188122022Leipzig: C.F. Peters PN 6440 1881. Folio. Original publisher's lavender wrappers. 1 title within decorative border 2 blank 3-57 pp. Engraved. <br/><br/>With a signed presentation inscription from the composer to his friend the Belgian violinist Martin Marsick 1847-1924 to title dated Berlin October 14 1881. <br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn faded and soiled. Slightly worn; edges to several leaves slightly frayed. First Edition. <br/><br/>Rüfer a pianist and composer settled in Berlin in 1871 and taught at the Stern Conservatory Kullak's Akademie der Tonkust and later at the Scharwenka Conservatory see Baker 8 p. 1560. C.F. Peters [PN 6440] unknown books
1819SS11081Paris:: Chez Belin-Leprieur 1819. 1819. Second Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 4 xiv 2 316; 4 362 pp. Scattered foxing throughout not diminishing legibility. Extremely infrequent contemporary ink notations especially a page of notes at p. 356 Vol. II in an unknown hand. Quarter black leather over blue marbled paper-backed boards; bindings carefully repaired. Near fine. Deleuze 1753-1835 a prominent member of the "Mesmer movement" discusses in this work "aspects such as the magnetic fluid healing problems and dangers of mesmerism and personally observed phenomena" Alvarado 116. "Deluze sic is a central figure in the history of animal magnetism. . . He was impressed with the demonstration of somnambulism and began to pursue his own study of animal magnetism. . . The Histoire is Deluze's first work on animal magnetism and is one of the most important ever written on the subject. . . The Histoire is about as balanced a treatment as one could find from a man who was engaged in a daily practice of that art" Crabtree 267. / An excerpt trans.: "The magnetiser can communicate his fluid to many objects and these objects become either the conductors of his action or proper instruments of its transmission and produce magnetic effects upon persons with whom he is in communication" Deleuze 212 in Alvarado 121. REFERENCES: Alvarado Carlos S. "MESMERISM ONLINE: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW." Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 36.2 2008: 115-29; Crabtree Adam. Animal Magnetism Early Hypnotism and Psychical Research 1766-1925. White Plains NY: Kraus International 1988; Crabtree 243 1818 edition; Caillet 2933; Tinterow Maurice M. Foundations of hypnosis From Mesmer To Freud 1970 p. 575. Chez Belin-Leprieur, 1819. hardcover books
18438783Paris: Firmin Didot Freres Editeurs 1843. 1st Edition. Half morocco. Very good. 45253pp. Double column text. Publisher's woodcut device on title. Illustrated with 86 plates and 3 large folding maps found following the text. 19th century red morocco gilt over red pebbled cloth. Light faded water stain at fore-edge of last ten plates. Part of the publisher's series "L'Univers Histoire et Description de Tous les Peuples." Firmin Didot Freres, Editeurs unknown books
1827279853Brussels 1827. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. 18" x 21".<br/><br/> Beautiful depiction of Western Mexico with a focus on elevation from Mazatlan to Manzanillo -Mexico's busiest Pacific port. Phillippe Marie Vandermaelen 1795-1869 was a Belgian cartographer and publisher. His Atlas universal was both the first lithograph atlas and the first atlas to map the world on a uniform scale. The maps were meant to join together to form a huge globe. This map is a fine example of his work.<br/><br/> unknown books
189429750Paris: Paul Huard et Guillemin 1894. First edition 8vo pp. vii 1 516 3; title and pp. 1-2 printed in red and black 37 full-p. facsimiles and numerous illus. in text throughout; 20th-c. green linen lettered in gilt on spine with the original printed wrappers bound in and the text margins ample; the spine very slightly darkened with small tear and minor wear to top end overall a very good copy. The standard reference for this important early French printer and pioneer in the use of italic type. <br/><br/> Paul, Huard et Guillemin unknown books
186237034Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1862. 1st US edition. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Boards stamped in blind. Square & tight. Upper tips spotted. Period poi to front paste-down of one "C. McChord / Capt 15th U S Inf." A VG copy. 144 pp. Illustrated with 34 intratextual figures & numerous charts. 12mo. 5-5/16" x 3-3/8" <br/><br/>"Translated from the latest edition of General Le Louterel's Aide-mémoire des Officers Généraux et Supérieurs et des Capitaines d'Infanterie." Preface. Not in Broadfoot though two other such Coppee works are noted. J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover books
