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1843263014Paris: W. Coquebert 1843. hardcover. very good-. 2 volumes in one. Thick 8vo 1/2 contemporary black morocco many page with light foxing mostly to margins edges of board corners lightly worn light dampstain to top of many page margins. Paris: W. Coquebert 1843.<br/><br/> Second edition published without the map which was in the first edition. Author emigrated from France and served in the United States Army as assistant topographical engineer from 1817 to 1829 when he was promoted to topographical engineer. He resigned from the army in 1832. Poussin returned to France and served as French minister to the United States from 1848 to 1849. The first volume is a history of colonial North America including the British colonies New France and Louisiana. Howes P-519. Sabin 64735.<br/><br/> W. Coquebert unknown books
184858639Paris: Guillaumin et Cie 1848. Third edition revised and enlarged first published in 1843. 8vo. 2 volumes: 4 492; 4 448 pp. Half-titles. Volume one presents a history of the United States from discovery and settlement through publication volume two commentary and description of contemporary American life; Poussin 1794-1876 served as French minister to the United States in the 1830s. Howes P-519. Sabin 64735. Some light foxing but a very good copy. Contemporary marbled boards rubbed corners and edges bumped later blue-green morocco backs gilt spine titles and ornaments. #5800. <br/><br/> Guillaumin et Cie hardcover books
1935845141935. LA VALLEE POUSSIN Louis de. HISTOIRE DU MONDE TOME VI 2: DYNASTIES ET HISTOIRE DE L'INDE DEPUIS KANISHKA JUSQU'AUX INVASIONS MUSULMANES. Paris: E. de Boccard 1935. First edition. 396 pp. 8vo. red cloth sunned at spine gilt black leather spine label bright. Speckled edges. Text age-toned at edges else near fine. unknown books
1930042382Paris: Gabriel Beauchesne 1930. 2e Ãdition. 213p. original stiff printed wrappers Ãtudes sur l'histoire des religions 6. Gabriel Beauchesne unknown books
21411Barbor James. ROADS POUSSIN Guillaume and General Simon Bernard. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR.OF A NATIONAL ROAD CONTEMPLATED FROM WASHINGTON TO NEW ORLEANS. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton 1828. 8vo. Later black cloth with red spine label. 19 pages 10 folded tables. First edition. Rink 5718. A marvelous and scarce document with only five copies recorded on OCLC. Whil it mentions the existance of a map Rink cites in Technica Americana that no map was issued. The cover letter printed after the title leaf is by Secretar of War John Barbour and cites the plan to build a national road from Washington to New Orleans across the Cumberland Mountains as authorized by Congress according to House of Representatives bill number 44 "to regulate th laying out and making a National Road from the City of Washington in the District of Columbia to New Orleans in the State of Louisiana." The ten folding tables give detailed information on the geographical formations natu of soils distances products bridges gradations counties population and distances along the route. New front free endpaper of the later binding also lacking. Some foxing. Priced accordingly. unknown books
UPOUNIC00OFHarry N. Abrams. Very Good. Poussin Nicolas. Nicolas Poussin: A New Approach. The Library of Great Paintings. Friedlaender Walter. NY: Harry N. Abrams ND. 203pp. Folio. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good 48 tipped in color plates. Lightly bumped and faintly faded edges light soiling on edges of text block. Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1990177591Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers 1990. Hardcover. VG/VG overall light wear to dust jacket. Gold cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering 215 pp profusely illustrated in bw and color. "This new volume in the Aurora cycle of monographic editions is devoted to the great seventeenth-century French artist Nicolas Poussin. A splendid collection of his paintnigs and drawings is housed in two major Soviet museums. The Hermitage in Leningrad and The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. All the works by the painter in this art book are accompanied with scholarly commentaries written by Irina Kuznetsova Marina Maiskaya Nadezhda Petrusevich and Natalia Serebriannay the leading researchers of the above musemes. They give an overall description of each work including its content style provenance and place in Poussin's artistic legacy. A select bibliography and a large number of analogies from various museums and collections in the world are provided."- Dust jacket. Aurora Art Publishers hardcover books
10047Paris: Firmin Didot Freres Fils n/d. Hardcover. Very good. A catalogue of Poussin's work illustrated in 239 black-and-white engravings. Quarto. Bound in half navy morocco and blue cloth with gilt rules two gilt-stamped leather labels on the spine five raised bands and marbled end papers. Wear and sunning at spines otherwise very good. The text is tight and the plates are very clean. <br/><br/> Firmin Didot Freres Fils, n/d. hardcover books
185117751Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Company. Very Good. 1851. Hardcover. Ex-lib; hinges cracked; spine worn light wear to covers; contents clean; Good . Lippincott, Grambo & Company hardcover books
