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18231698Paris, Baudoin frères, 1823. In-8 de VIII-112-512 pages, demi-veau blond glacé, dos à nerfs orné, étiquette de titre et tomaison maroquin rouge et vert. Dos frotté, haut du dos et mors fendus (manque de peau dans le caisson supérieur du dos).
1857RO40099566Non précisé. 1857. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Manque en coiffe de tête, Intérieur bon état. 388 pages. Bandeau décoratif noir en tête du 1er chapitre. Annotations d'époque sur le dos. Manques sur les plats. 1er plat se détachant légèrement. Page de titre manquante. 1re et toutes dernières pages légèrement abîmées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle
ML3356Petite note manuscrit concernant Jeanne de France contemporaire de l' ouvrage. Langue: Français
1822RO40258124Chez C. J. Trouvé, Paris. 1822. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Quelques rousseurs. 532 pages. Pièce de titre verte sur le dos. Titre, fleurons et filets dorés sur le dos. Tranche jaune. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Epidermures sur le dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 944.03-Histoire de France de 1589 à 1789
1825RO40252059Chez Ladvocat, Libraire, Paris. 1825. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 429 pages. 2 gravures en noir et blanc en frontispice (portraits). Titre, tomaison et filets dorés sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque.. . . . Classification Dewey : 944.03-Histoire de France de 1589 à 1789
18251169571825. First Edition. GENLIS Countess de. Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. London: Henry Colburn 1825. Eight volumes. Octavo early 20th-century full red morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers marbled endpapers all edges gilt. $3200.First edition in English of these compelling memoirs extensively extra-illustrated with approximately 150 relevant portraits and views of France nearly a third hand-colored beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun.Madame de Genlis was ""a woman of encyclopedic information . Napoleon paid her to furnish him with letters on literature politics etc . She was an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment and sensation morals and history"" Oxford Companion to French Literature 304. Her Memoirs which comprise a perceptive social history of the 18th and early 19th centuries were initially considered somewhat scandalous because of their detailed personal accounts of famous figures known to frequent her salon. She was later well-known both for her advocacy of Rousseau's theories of child-rearing and her close association with her relative Madame de Montesson the lover and later wife of Louis Philippe d'Orléans Duke of Orléans. Morocco bookplates of Doris Louise Benz whose exceptional and varied collection mainly comprising first editions like this one was sold at auction to benefit Dartmouth College Librarya charitable gesture that Dartmouth happily accepted but continues to find mysterious given that Benz was an alumna of Radcliffe with no ties to Dartmouth.Only a few spots of foxing to generally clean interiors bindings lovely and fine. A beautiful set. unknown
