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178043060Londres 1780. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Londres: 1780. 2 volumes bound as one vols. FIRST EDITION. 155 180 pp. Text in French. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown Full modern period-style mottled calf with contrasting colored morocco lettering labels. On the title-page of volume one someone has added the Roman numeral Ò I Ò to the date making it 1781 but what do they know else a nice crisp clean copy of a hard to find collection of tales and short stories by Revolutionary statesman Mirabeau in new period-style full calf binding. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. 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
1910955Paris: Printed for The Grolier Society 1910. 2 vols. 300;290pp. Illustrated with 16 plates each one in two states. The deluxe "Edition des Amateurs" limited to 100 numbered sets. Full green morocco spines faded to brown. Raised bands on spin e. T.e.g. Printed for The Grolier Society hardcover 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
19724362Darmstadt Germany: Scientia Verlag Aalen 1972. Full-Leather. Collectible; Fine. The 1972 facsimile reproduction of this 1760 French classic of economics. Bright and Near Fine in its handsome full-leather. Thick 16mo 312 pgs. <br/><br/> Scientia Verlag Aalen 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