Item 320582Madame de Maintenon, A Memoir.
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London: 1880. Read More Item Details for Madame de Maintenon, A Memoir Add to Wish List
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Lyon: Chez Bernuset, 1780. Read More Item Details for Vraie Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement a parler, a Lire et a Écrire l'Anglois, ou Grammaire Générale de la Langue Angloise Add to Wish List
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Paris: Éditions Duchartre & van Buggenhoudt, 1928. First edition. Read More Item Details for Les "Freres de la Coste" Filibustiers & Corsaires Add to Wish List
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Paris: Librairie Plon, [1933]. Read More Item Details for Henriette d’Angleterre et La Cour de Louis XIV Add to Wish List
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Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et C[i]e, 1839. Read More Item Details for Histoire de L'Empereur Napoléon Add to Wish List
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A Leide: chez les Elzevirs, 1648. First Elzevier edition. The celebrated memoirs of the foremost French Renaissance historian (1445-1509), notable as an important analysis of 15th century culture, politics and personality. "...The graphic style of his narrative and above all the keenness of his insight into the motives of his..... Read More Item Details for Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Sr. d'Argenton Add to Wish List
Item #311279
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Valenciennes [France]: 2 avril, 1792. From the American Revolution to the Guillotine. A superb piece written shortly after Biron's promotion to Lieutenant General. Having been authorized to have to aides-de-camp, he asks the expedition of his patent to Mr de Preissac (Louis-Lambert de Preissac). Reading in part: "Ayant été autorisé..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed ("Biron") ordering the expedition of the appointment of his aide-de-camp Add to Wish List
Item #304853
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Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858. Second edition. Known as Biron, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duc de Lauzun was a French soldier and politician, who participated in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. Read More Item Details for Mémoires du Duc de Lauzun (1747-1783) Publiés entièrement conformes au manuscrit avec une étude sur la vie de l'auteur … sans suppressions at augmentée de notes nouvelles par Louis Lacour Add to Wish List
Item #264703
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Bellevue: September 10, 1881. “Je voudrais qu’il dépendit de moi que l’acquisition de votre oeuvre fût faite par M. Nicholas Thierry …” Blanc (1811-1882) was a French socialist politician and historian who favored radical reform. With a contemporary engraved portrait of Blanc. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Louis Blanc”) Add to Wish List
Item #263271
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Paris: Librarie du Figaro, Docks de la librairie, imprimerie générale de Ch. Lahure, n.d. [1870s]. Profusely illustrated edition in a handsome binding, of Blanc's monumental history of the French Revolution, which was originally published in 12 volumes 1847-1862. Read More Item Details for Histoire de la révolution Française Add to Wish List
Item #313620
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Paris: Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1881. First edition. Career military officer Claude Blanchard (1742-1803) accompanied Rochambeau to America; this is his campaign diary. Read More Item Details for Guerre d’Amérique 1780-1783. Journal de Campagne Add to Wish List
Item #264688
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Paris: Desaint et Saillant .. 1752. First edition. Handsome copy of this curious retelling of Cortez in the third person that includes two folding engraved maps. Read More Item Details for Le Mexique Conquis Add to Wish List
Item #40233
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Paris: 5 fructidor An 12 [23 August 1804]. Excellent autograph of Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846), brother of Napoleon I, named by him King of Holland in 1806, and the father of Napoleon III. This document informs the recipient that the Emperor has already filled a position and that, accordingly, his request..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript Document Signed (“Louis Bonaparte”), rejecting a request by Inspecteur Norel of Chambéry to be returned to active duty, and with a short Autograph addition (seven words) confirming that Bonaparte had submitted Norel’s name for the Légion d’honneur Add to Wish List
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a la Haye: Jean van Duren, 1741. Second edition. First published Paris (Didot) 1740. Read More Item Details for Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement Add to Wish List
Item #55961
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Paris: Jules Bonaventure for the author, 1869-73. Binder's Copy. Read More Item Details for Album de Reliures Artistiques & Historiques, accompagné de notes explicatives par le Bibliophile Julien Add to Wish List
Item #223130
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Paris: Chez Giguet, 1801. First edition printed from the original manuscript. Bouillé was a French general who served in the West Indies and distinguished himself as a commander of French forces in the American Revolution; he was the cousin of La Fayette. He was also Lieutenant-General of the Royal forces..... Read More Item Details for Mémoires de ... sur la Révolution Française Add to Wish List
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Paris: Hachette, 1896. First edition. Read More Item Details for Le grand siècle. Louis XIV - Les Arts, Les idées Add to Wish List
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London: Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington Street, 1836. With a miniature based on Charles de Steuben's 1812 portrait of the Emperor. With a miniature based on Charles de Steuben's 1812 portrait of the Emperor inside the front board. With the extra illustrations, generally portraits of figures described within, it is..... Read More Item Details for Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Add to Wish List
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Paris: Connaissance de la Peche, octobre 1978-avril 1987. Read More Item Details for Connaissance de la Peche. Vol. I Number 1-No. 103 Add to Wish List
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[N.p.]: 1785. Second edition. Unrecorded Second Edition. Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), French journalist, prolific pamphleteer, and revolutionary, much influenced by Rousseau. Brissot was imprisoned briefly in the Bastille for writing a seditious pamphlet. He visited the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and the United States. Interested in humanitarian projects, he..... Read More Item Details for L'Autorité législative de Rome anéantie, ou Examen rapide de l'histoire & des sources du droit canonique, dans lequel on prouve ses incertitudes, ses abus & la nécessité de lui substituer pour la discipline de l'Église, des Loix simples &c Add to Wish List
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New York: Childs and Swaine, for F. Childs and Co. Berry Rogers and Berry and Thomas Allen, 1794. First American Edition. Read More Item Details for J. P. Brissot, Deputy of Eure and Loire, to his Constituents, on the Situation of the National Convention; on the influence of the anarchists, and the evils it has caused; and on the necessity of annihilating that influence in order to save the republic. Translated from the French Add to Wish List
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Boston: FA Searle, 1868. Read More Item Details for Broadside: Boston Theatre. Last Week Positively of "The Great Tragic Queen, Mrs. F.W. Lander who will repeat her last great success received on Friday. "Marie Antoinette" Add to Wish List
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Paris: Chez Prault, 1750. Nouvelle edition. Dictionary of taxation and finance. Read More Item Details for Dictionnaire des Aydes ou les Dispositions Add to Wish List
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London: J. Dodsley, 1791. "Second edition" [i.e., first edition, second printing]. The second printing, following the first printing of 2,000 copies which quickly sold out. Read More Item Details for An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution Add to Wish List
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London: J. Owen, 1796. Unauthorized first edition, issued a day before the authorized edition published by F. and C. Rivington; second state of page iii. Read More Item Details for Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, in a Series of Letters Add to Wish List
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