Plon-Nourrit & Co., [1896]. First Edition. Hardcover. 47 pages. 47 full color images. Oblong quarto, 9.6 x 13.75 inches. Text in French. Beautifully printed and designed. Boutet de Monvel (1851-1913) is best known for his watercolors for children's book illustrations. He is a major figure in nineteenth century children's book.....
Nash & Grayson, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 279 pages. 'A detailed account of Bonaparte's daily movements and activities from the sixth of May 1800, when he left Paris, to the fourteenth of June in the same year, when he fought the battle of Marengo' -- from the preface. With sixteen.....
Centre International de Poesie Marseille, 2003. First Edition. Poster. Poster, 19.6 x 25.5 inches. Poster for Exhibition Goria, October 24-29, 2003. Centre International de Poesie Marseille aims to promote and facilitate the circulation of contemporary poetry and literature and works at connecting writing, visual arts and music. First edition (first.....
L. Guilmin, n.d., ca. 1920. Hardcover. 64 pages with 2-page folding map of Paris and environs tipped on inside front cover, 2-page black on white map of Metropolitain et Nord-Sud, 20 2-page folding maps of Arrondissements, and folding map 'Plan de Paris Metropolitain et Nord-Sud,' 14.75 x 19 inches, printed.....
Jacob van Ellinckhuysen, 1694. First Edition. Hardcover. Tome Premier: [2], [12], [42], 488 pp. Covers years 1574-1579 Tome Second: 394 pp. Covers years 1578-1585. Last volume is missing. Henry III reigned from 1551-1589. First edition (first printing). Very good in vellum covers. Covers with some wear and discoloration. Title written.....
Auguste Picard, 1927, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 565, 88 pages. First editions (first printings). Near fine copy of La Litterature rebound with original paper wrappers in marbled paper over boards and leather covers. Spine with 5 raised bands, Title in bright gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers. Limited edition, #183/500. Stamp.....
Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 241 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and.....
Cornell University Press, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility.....
Flammarion, July 2002. Hardcover. Edith Wharton's love affair with the French Riviera began in 1919, and continued to the end of her days. She found there a microcosm of the sort of society that had always fascinated her, that she described in her classic novels. Between the two world wars.....
Carlton Hotel, (n.d. but 1960s). Trade Paperback. 6-panel brochure.
Harmony, November 1989. Hardcover.
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 1988. Trade Paperback. In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were.....
University of Wales Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 241 pages. Dialects and grammar of the Celtic language. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket that is lightly chipped at the spine head and a bit worn at the edges, else very good.
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2005. Trade Paperback. At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, the last five years have seen a major Roth.....
Bedford/St. Martin's, October 1995. Trade Paperback. This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.
Phoenix, January 2000. Trade Paperback.
Little, Brown, January 1974. Hardcover.
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2003. Trade Paperback. A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart.....
John Murray, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 284 pages. Biographies and genealogies of French kings and queens from the 14th to the 19th century. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy in a dust jacket missing an inch at the top and bottom of the spine. Inscribed by the.....
Wordsworth Military Library, March 2001. Trade Paperback. A reference work on the Napoleonic Wars which covers all the important soldiers, sailors, strategies, armaments and battles that shaped Napoleon's career. Includes information on the campaigns led by Napoleon as well as related events such as the Peninsular War.
NYRB Classics, November 2006. Trade Paperback. No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt The journal of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature, a......