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GRAND - CARTERET (John):
History, Life, Customs and Curiosities through Images, Pamphlets and Documents (1450–1900).
Published by Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts. 1917–, 1918
5 tomes in 5 large quarto volumes. Green half-shagreen binding with corner pieces, smooth spine decorated with gilt motifs, title label and volume number in cherry morocco, gilt top edge, coloured endpapers.
Volumes 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5.
Printed in a run of 1,500 numbered copies. 1 of 1,000 copies numbered ‘alfa’.
Volume I, 29 coloured plates and 405 illustrations in the text, VIII–470 pages: the Renaissance, printing, humanism, the New World, political songs, the republican ideal, queens and ladies of beauty, kings, ambitions regarding the Rhine, medicine, erotic poetry and the economic crisis.
Volume I, 29 coloured plates and 453 illustrations in the text, 470 pages: the Reformation in Germany and France, civil and religious wars, leading figures of the 16th century, superstitions, theatre, courtly life and rural life, the first editions of the Renaissance, epidemics and great plagues, and various other curiosities.
Volume III, 29 coloured plates and 450 illustrations in the text, 474 pages: Henry IV, the Fronde and the Mazarinades, Abraham Brosse and the rebellious spirit, foreigners in France (Italians and Spaniards in the 16th and 17th centuries), the law of nations, the Précieuses, our great classics, the Jesuits and the Jansenists, the theatre, Louis XIV’s physicians, the death of the lion, the Great King’s table and bedchamber, the Regency, the Law Bank and various curiosities.
Volume IV, 29 coloured plates and 479 illustrations in the text, 474 pages: Freemasonry, a centre for medical education under the Ancien Régime, the noble particle, the Encyclopaedists, women in power, romantic authors, magnetism, distant expeditions, the theatre, newspapermen and pamphleteers, the hidden side of the Consulate and the Empire, the Restoration and various curiosities.
Volume V, 29 coloured plates and 405 illustrations in the text, 474 pages: The Revolution of 1830 and the July Monarchy, the Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic, the Second Empire and national speculation, the ‘gallant’ 19th century, the philosophical movement, the Commune and the Third Republic, presidents and caricature, Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair, as well as various curiosities.
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