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189614872Chicago: Rand McNally 1896. First US Edn. 8vo pp. 286. Bound in grey cloth stamped in silver a very good untrimmed copy. Wilson notes that Janville 1849!1932 was the great grand-daughter of Mirabeau and like him she was greatly involved in the political activies of her time. Her work contains strong statements about the soceity in the second empire and about the role of women. She wrote more than 100 novels and short stories. Rand McNally unknown books
1900019997Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1900. 2 vols. xxviii 325; 347p 24 plates original grey cloth mostly unopened. No. 819 of 1000 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper. Secret memoirs of the courts of Europe from the 16th to the 19th century 7-8. George Barrie & Son unknown books
1845015788Paris: Chez Lefevre Editeur 1845. 12mo. 599pp. with each title translated by a different author and with a new translation of Veillee de Venus bound in 1/4 tan polished calf over marbled paper covered boards raised bands spine lettering gilt marbled endpapers scattered foxing otherwise a very good copy. Chez Lefevre, Editeur unknown books
1851005423Paris France: Normant 1851. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Three volume set complete. Vol I: ii 466 pages of text. Vol II: ii 534 pages of text. Vol III: ii 499 pages of text including an index. Uniformly bound in half leather. Spines are heavily sunned with cracking and peeling of exterior layer; small chip to top of 3rd volume; red and black spine labels remain mostly intact attractive and are readable. Bindings protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Text has scattered foxing especially to first and last leaves of each volume. French Revolution France. Text is in French. An attractive and intact set of this uncommon publication. Normant Hardcover books
1889310<p>Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau / Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti de Martel de Janville GYP <i>BOB A L'EXPOSITION Par GYP. Dessins de BOB. Troisième Édition.</i>Paris : Calmann Lévy Éditeur Ancienne Maison Michel Lévy Frères 3 Rue Auber 3 1889. In-8. viii ; 120 pages. Imp. Mouillot 13. Quai Voltaire 38300. French language text. Original green wrapper bound in. 23 cm x 17.5 cm. Gyp 1849 – 1932 is a pseudonym for the author-illustrator Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau. Vicaire III: 1187- 1188. </p>This humorous children's book begins with discussion of the newly finished Eiffel Tower as it was at the entrance to the Exposition Universelle of 1889 held in Paris and its mention in the dialogue between Bob and l'Abbé opens their discussion of people places ideas and things at the Exposition held in the centennial year of the storming of the Bastille in 1789. The profuse in-text illustrations also reflect the presence of multi-cultural events at the Exposition. The dancers from Java whose gamelan orchestra so impressed Claude Debussy. Also the many full-page black-and-white illustrations show the presence of Middle Eastern and African culture at the Exposition. This is a very good copy. Calmann Lévy, Éditeur, Ancienne Maison Michel Lévy Frères, 3 Rue Auber, 3. hardcover books
18994405Paris: Edition Du Gaulois 1899. Oblong folio red pebbled cloth with large paste-down color pictorial illustration on front cover. About fine. With the appearance of a children's book the setting is a schoolroom with an abbot instructing a child. Actually it is a record of an 1899 campaign for a Boulangiste candidate in the Norman village where Gyp summered told in a childish narrative and 36 full page cartoonish drawings in color and black and white by "Bob". The Countess was a fanatical anti-Semite and anti-Dreyfusard who denounced populist democracry and the parliamentary French Republic in numerous sketches and novels. She identified Boulanger who vowed to save France in a time of crisis with Napoleon I whom she idolized. Georges Boulanger was a conservative French general and politician who threatened a coup d'etat and the establishment of a dictatorship advocating revenge on Germany and a return to the monarchy. According to the newspaper Le Temps Gyp harangued the peasants and fisherman of the peaceful coastal town bribed the children with candy and distributed posters insulting the government for which she was fined. Reference: Willa Silverman The Notorious Life of Gyp. Right-Wing Anarchist in Fin-de-Siecle France." . Color Pictorial Cloth. About Fine. Illus. by "Bob". Oblong Folio. Edition Du Gaulois Hardcover books
1889046694Paris: E. Plon Nourrit etc. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Near Fine Condition. Jean-Francois Raffaelli. Half green morocco over marbled boards spine a bit sunned original wrappers bound in. Black and white and hand colored illustrations throughout and 10 heliogravure by Raffaelli - number 29 of 40 on Japan and with an additional folding etching a version of the frontis signed in pencil by Raffaelli tipped in before the frontis. A lovely production. Size: Quarto 4to. Illustrator: Jean-Francois Raffaelli. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046694. E. Plon, Nourrit etc. hardcover books
