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195189877Port Louis Mauritius: Printed by Henry & Cie 1951. Paperback. Good. index 60p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Water streaks on front and back cover. Foprmer owner's name stamp. French text. Societe de L'Histoire de L'ile Maurice. No. 4. <br/><br/> Printed by Henry & Cie paperback books
1972026845New York: Burt Franklin 1972. 359p. maps original red cloth. Reprint of the 1863 edition Burt Franklin: Research & source works series. Burt Franklin unknown books
19292308111New York City: The Elf Publishers 1929. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #1531 of 1950. A near fine copy in a very good slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed. 1929 Hard Cover. xiv 185 pp. Being a translation from the French by Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen. A collection of Chinese poetry and literature. The Elf, Publishers unknown books
176725799Cologne: Nyon 1767. 8vo 19.7 cm 7.75". Frontis. iv lvi 576 pp.; 3 plts. <br><br>First edition: Life of the celebrated yet controversial viceroy and reformer Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. Abbé Dinouart consulted an unpublished biography begun by the Jesuit Pierre Champion and halted due to Champion's "franchise" according to Barbier to produce this important account of Palafox's life accomplishments and disputes with the Jesuits. Dinouart's Vie includes the text in French translation of Palafox's letters to the king of Spain and to Pope Innocent X on behalf of the cruelly treated Mexican Indians as well as the text of the petition by Charles III of Spain to the Pope requesting that Palafox be considered for canonization.<br>Â Â Â Â => The work is illustrated with a frontispiece and three copper-engraved plates done by Louis le Grand after designs by Gravelot. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 20201; Palau 73986; LeClerc Bibliotheca Americana 3180; Barbier Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes 100304. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners joints and spine extremities rubbed spine with two pinpoint holes and surface cracks to leather. Front free endpaper partially separated with pencilled annotation on verso; inner margins of one plate and opposing page with small area of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item pages otherwise clean. All edges marbled in blue. An attractive copy. Nyon hardcover books
198044574Port-au-Prince: Ateliers Fardin 1980. Paperback. Very Good. photo 188p. Wrapper. 19cm. French text. <br/><br/> Ateliers Fardin paperback books
1923249979Paris: Éditiions Mornay 1923. No. 983 of 950 copies on Guarro. Color illustrations text within elaborate gilt border full-page polychrome arabesques and ornamental filigrees and initial capital letters. 1 vols. 12mo. Full cream calf ruled in blue and green lines alternating with gilt-dotted triangles radiating from a central metal onlaid medallion with arabesque design in red and black against a gilt-dotted backgroound decorative endsheets and flyleafs stamped signed "O Pilon". Fine. No. 983 of 950 copies on Guarro. Color illustrations text within elaborate gilt border full-page polychrome arabesques and ornamental filigrees and initial capital letters. 1 vols. 12mo. Binding by Odette Pilon. Éditiions Mornay unknown books
19406814Mexico City: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion 1940/ 42. First edition. Large folios 14" x 9.5" / 36 x 24 cm 2 vols. pp L 382 cxxxi photos index; xviii 631 xciii photos index: wrappers. Limited to 2000 copies. Beautifully-produced inventory of church architecture in the state of Hidalgo Mexico. Includes a profusion of architectural renderings -- floor-plans profiles frontal views architecutral details etc. Also illustrated with hundreds of b/w photographs in the back sections of both volumes. Well over 700 colonial era churches described. To be noted: this is a production of the Talleres Graficos de la Nacion and in every way lives up to the high production values of their work. Some moderate soiling to covers; spine has been reinforced professionally. Very good set. <br/><br/> Talleres Graficos de la Nacion unknown books
1954WRCLIT35156Monaco: Editions du Rocher 1954. Printed wrappers. Portrait. Prefatory letter by Max Jacob. Introduction by Marcel Adema. First edition. One of nine hundred numbered copies for sale from a total edition of one thousand copies. Includes thirty-two hitherto unpublished letters and ten drawings by Apollinaire. Near fine. Editions du Rocher unknown books
19542415Monaco: Editions du Rocher 1954. First Edition one of 900 on Aussedat Roto blanc from a total issue of 1000. Page size: 5-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches; 135pp; portrait frontis of author. Bound: handsomely bound in 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards spine with author and title in gilt top edge gilt marbled endpapers original wrappers bound in largely unopened fine. Editions du Rocher unknown books