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ria9783112307823_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A hardcover
912786Lecointe Libraire Paris 1828 Fort in-16 ( 145 X 95 mm ) de 524 pages, demi-basane anthracite, dos à nerfs avec date dorée en queue, non rogné. ( Reliure de l'époque ). Petit manque à la coiffe supérieur, bon exemplaire de cette rare édition originale. De la bibliothèque "Jacobus Decimus BLANC" ( ex-libris ).Livre premier et préliminaire : Etablissemens politiques antérieurs à la formation du comté de Provence, Livre deuxième : Comté de Provence depuis sa formation jusqu'à l'union avec la France, Livre troisième Comté de Provence depuis l'union avec la France.
1968__3112307828Mouton De Gruyter 1968. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 678 pages. French language. 6.14x1.69x9.21 inches. Mouton De Gruyter hardcover
204087Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1788 in-4, titre, xiv-[2]-183 pp., demi-basane marbrée à coins, dos lisse orné de filets et semis dorés, pièce de titre crème, tranches rouges, gardes de papier dominoté (reliure de l'époque). Coiffe supérieure rognée, mais bon exemplaire.
185790485Claude Arthus Bertrand | Paris 1857-1859 | 16 x 24.5 cm | 4 volumes reliés
185790485Paris: Claude Arthus Bertrand 1857. Fine. Claude Arthus Bertrand Paris 1857-1859 16 x 24.5 cm 4 volumes reliés First edition illustrated with a map of the Mexican states at the time of the Conquest in 1521 by Malte-Brun see Sabin 7429 Leclerc 1079 Brasseur de Bourbourg Bibliothèque Mexico-Guatémalienne p. 27 Numa Broc Amérique pp. 45-47. Originally engraved by Erhard Schieble this map is presented here as an early facsimile likely produced by the publisher to complete his copies. Bound in half havana shagreen spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt tooling and gilt panels and fillets orange shagreen title labels minor rubbing to spines marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns twentieth-century bindings. Waterstains mainly affecting volumes III and IV. This foundational work on the history of Mexico is divided as follows: I: Heroic Times and History of the Toltec Empire. II: History of Yucatan and Guatemala; with that of Anahuac during the Aztec Middle Ages up to the establishment of the monarchy in Mexico. III: History of the States of Michoacan and Oaxaca and of the Anahuac Empire up to the arrival of the Spanish. Astronomy religion sciences and arts of the Aztecs etc. IV: Conquest of the Mexican and Guatemalan States etc. Establishment of Spanish government and the Catholic Church. Ruin of idolatry decline and subjugation of the indigenous race. A former professor at the Quebec Seminary and later Vicar General in Boston Abbé Étienne Charles Brasseur de Bourbourg 18141874 traveled as a missionary to Mexico and Central America. He developed a keen interest in vanished civilizations and was appointed official archaeologist of the French expedition to Mexico in 1864. ""By turns archaeologist ethnologist historian and linguist Brasseur de Bourbourg alongside Désiré Charnay was one of the founders of Americanist studies in France in the mid-nineteenth century"" Numa Broc. Claude Arthus Bertrand hardcover
186988612Imprimerie Impériale (1851-1870) | Paris 1869-1870 | 26.5 x 36.4 cm | 2 volume en reliures de l'éditeur
186988612Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1851-1870 1869. Fine. Imprimerie Impériale 1851-1870 Paris 1869-1870 26.5 x 36.4 cm 2 volume en reliures de l'éditeur First edition of this work published ""by order of His Majesty the Emperor and under the supervision of the Minister of Public Instruction"" cf. Leclerc 1878 2283.The first volume is illustrated with 70 colour-printed plates all hors-texte.Contemporary half red shagreen bindings spine with four raised bands adorned with double gilt fillets and floral gilt tooling gilt decorative rolls at head and foot some rubbing cloth boards with blind-stamped borders and central device bindings of the period.Some rubbing to boards water stains to the upper corners affecting the first 10 leaves of both volumes one quire in the first volume becoming loose boards slightly discoloured or soiled along right margins two corners lightly bumped.Charles Étienne Brasseur known as Brasseur de Bourbourg 18141874 a French missionary in Mexico and Central America is regarded as one of the pioneers of pre-Columbian archaeology and history. Deeply engaged in the study of indigenous languages he announced in 1863 that he had discovered the key to transcribing the Mayan script. He later presented his principles of decipherment in the present work on the Troano Manuscript.Volume I contains an exposition of the Mayan graphic system for which 600 characters were specially cast at the Imprimerie Impériale. It is followed by a facsimile of the Troano Manuscript reproduced in 70 lithochrome plates. Volume II features the grammar chrestomathy and a MayaFrenchSpanish vocabulary.Very scarce. Imprimerie Impériale (1851-1870) hardcover
