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87 - (Commune) – 2 works in 3 volumes.
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(Commune) – 2 works in 3 volumes. – Minutes of the Commune of 1871. Critical edition by Georges Bourgin and Gabriel Henriot. Paris, Ernest Leroux then A. Lahure, 1924–1945. 2 in-8 volumes, [2 ff ], 607 pp and [4 ff], 616 pp, paperback, slightly worn. ‘Narrowly saved from the fire at the Hôtel de Ville, the Minutes were transferred to the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris in 1894. Thirty years later, Bourgin and Henriot produced an edition of them that is a model of its kind’ (Le Quillec, p. 80). Following the description of this book, the bibliographer provides a bibliography of articles devoted to it. Del Bo (p. 62). - DITTMAR (Gérald). History of the Paris Commune of 1871. Paris: the author, 2008. In-8, 472 pp, [1 f], paperback. ‘We have constructed this history of the Commune on the basis of the most significant texts that shed light on the course of events.’ It is in this way that the distinctive feature of this entirely new history of one of the greatest social movements France has ever known is highlighted: the reference to the texts. The book is richly illustrated, notably with a gallery of 100 portraits, as well as reproductions of posters, drawings and engravings. Biographies, bibliography.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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Auction time 10/05/2026 at 2:00 PM
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