Forty original watercolors for Lamartine’s L'Histoire des Girondins...
[Paris: Fume, ca. 1847]. Raffet, Auguste. Though not generally appreciated in his own time, Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) was... Read More
Price: $40,000
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Autograph Letter, signed ("John S.C. Abbot") to Mr. Edward Brown Houghton.
Brunswick, Maine: Nov., 2, 1858. "Your favor of Nov. 6 I have just rec'd. I regret very much that I have no autograph of the Emperor and have never had any. While in Europe I received some notes from distinguished men but they have long since passed into the hands... Read More
Price: $125
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Le Torrent et la Digue. Alger du 13 Mai aux Barricades.
Paris: Plon, nd. Inscribed. Inscribed "Pour M. Emile Rossignol/ cordialement/ Massu/7.4.73." Read More
Price: $150
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Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution
Revolution in France! [drop title].
[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the... Read More
Price: $800
Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of...
Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. First Edition. Collects speeches by Chatham, Burke and Erskine concerning legal issues connected with the American Revolution and other topics, as well as Mackintosh's speech in the trial of Peltier, a French Royalist emigré, for libel of the First Consul of the French Republic (Buonaparte). Read More
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l'Esprit de la Ligue, ou histoire politique des troubles de la Ligue pendant les XVI et XVII siècles.
Paris: Jean-Th. Hérissant, 1770. Second edition. "Réimprimé plusieurs fois ... avec le nom de l'auteur. L'Abbé de Saint-Léger a fourni ê l'auteur une grande partie de la notice raisonnée des ouvrages, insérée en tête du premier volume, et il m'a dit plusieurs fois que cet estimable ouvrage avait été composé... Read More
Price: $350
Building Code, Paris 1748
Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes réelles, les Rapports des...
N.p. [Paris?]: 1748. Building Code, Paris 1748. Read More
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Papers relative to French Affairs communicated by...to Mr. Monroe.
Washington, D.C: Way, 1808. Read More
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Robert Estienne Royal Printer. An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus.
Cambridge: The University Press, 1954. First edition. Read More
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Histoire de la Bastille depuis sa Foundation 1374 jusqu'à sa Destruction 1789, Ses Prisonniers, ses Gouverneurs, ses Archives; Détails des...
Paris: Administration de Librairie, Rue Notre-Dames des Victoires, 1844. Magnifique Édition, Splendidement Illustrée de Gravures de Agier executées par nos premiers artistes. Read More
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Le Bon Français.
Paris: Devamber, 43 bould. Malesherbes, nd [1918]. Plates are: Le Bon Français Cultive la Terre, Le Bon Français Travaille pour nos soldats, Le Bon Français Se Bat pour son Pays, Le Bon Français Assure la Reprise des Affaires, Le Bon Français Souscrit à l"Emprunt et Echange son Or contre des... Read More
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Bibliotheque Raphael Esmerian...in 5 Parts...Avant-propos de M. Jacques Guignard for Part I;Part II,I Reliures de quelque Ateliers du XVIIe Siecles;...
Paris: Georges Blaizot & Claude Guerin, Juin, 6,1972-18 Juin 1974. One of the greatest sales of the century. Read More
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The Library of Jean Grolier. A Preliminary Catalogue … With an Introductory Study "Jean Grolier and the Renaissance" by Colin...
New York: The Grolier Club, 1971. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Read More
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L'Ameublement Parisien avant, pendant et après La Révolution.
Paris: Alexis Sinjon, 1929. First edition. Read More
Price: $275
Memoirs of Bertrand Barère, Chairman of the Committee of Public Safety during the Revolution. Now first Translated by De V....
London: H.S. Nichols 3 Soho Square and 62a Piccadilly W, 1896. Read More
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An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council; an an Examination of the Conduct of Great...
London: J. M. Richardson ... and J. Ridgeway, 1808. Third edition. A plea for the repeal of a policy of systematic hostility toward American commerce from this financier and statesman who married the eldest daughter of Senator William Bingham of the United States - an alliance to which, according to... Read More
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Le livre des Comptes-Faits ou le Tarif General des Monnoies.
Paris: Chez le Libraires Associés, 1771. Read More
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Les Comptes Faits ou le Tarif General de touttes les Monnoyes.
Paris: Se Vend chez Nyon Pere et Didot, [ca. 1742]. Early edition. Interest tables and facts, a “ready reckoner”. Read More
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High Lights of the French Revolution.
New York: Century Co, 1915. First American edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the flyleaf "Mr. James A Vance / The authpr/ Hilaire Belloc / October 1926." Read More
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Vraie Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement a parler, a Lire et a Écrire l'Anglois, ou Grammaire Générale de la Langue Angloise...
Lyon: Chez Bernuset, 1780. Read More
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Les "Freres de la Coste" Filibustiers & Corsaires.
Paris: Éditions Duchartre & van Buggenhoudt, 1928. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Henriette d’Angleterre et La Cour de Louis XIV.
Paris: Librairie Plon, [1933]. Read More
Price: $200
