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1755291252Paris. : Chaubert et Herissant. 1755. 1st Edition. Contemporary full brown leather gilt spine decorations red edges marbled endpapers. . Good front hinge splitting light mostly marginal dampstaining. 12mo.14x8 cm. . French text. Uncommon commentary on Biblical poetry. weight: 0.4 lb. Chaubert et Herissant. hardcover books
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
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
179118566Paris: Chez Petit & Maugi 1791. 8vo. Modern wrappers. 30 pages. Some light spotting. 8vo. In the introduction the editor voices his strongly anti-Jacobin sentiments- "traitez les jacobins comme on traite les fous et le bonheur pourra renaître en France." The author writes warning the people of the falseness behind the "liberties" touted to the people. M & W III 24413 Chez Petit [&] Maugi unknown 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
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
1789183453No place.: No publisher. 1789 . Contemporary half speckled calf over speckled boards. red spine label with gilt title. Corners light bumped light foxing otherwise a very good tight copy. 8vo. 18x11 cm. . French text. Scarce edition of the correspondence of Mirabeau denouncing the corrupt Prussian court. The book was censored by the French government hence the anonymous author and publisher. weight: 0.6 lb. No publisher. hardcover books
