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147 - 17 VOLUMES: HISTORY - *Le Panorama*, 1900 Exhibition / 1901 …
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17 VOLUMES: HISTORY - *Le Panorama*, 1900 Exhibition / 1901 Russian Festivities, an album dedicated to Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to France, large oblong quarto, half-leather binding, with numerous illustrations - Charlemagne, by Alphonse Vétault, published by Mame et fils, 1877, 556 pp, 22 plates (including 2 chromolithographs), unbound - 18th Century: Institutions, Customs and Costumes: France 1700–1789, 21 chromolithographs and 350 woodcuts, by Paul Lacroix, published by Firmin-Didot, 1875, 520 pp. (some loose engravings) - *Le Ménagier de Paris*, a treatise on morality and domestic economy composed in 1393 by a Parisian bourgeois, 1961, 2 volumes plus a fold-out map of Paris circa 1550, 83 pp. (vol. 1) & 56 folios (vol. 2: facsimile), fine slipcase in fabric in the style of medieval tapestry, in very fine condition - Essay on Finance or Draft Budget for 1817, by M. Goussard, published by Delaunay, 1816, 112 pp., plain cover - Two treatises, one on mutual gifts made by will or by contract, and the other on conditional, onerous and similar dispositions, Jean-Marie Ricard, published by Louis Billaine, 1661, 472 pp. + table of contents (small marginal verses) - A Chronicle of the History of France from the Gauls to the third year of the reign of Louis-Philippe I, L. Maire, published by Daubrée, 1833, 45 cm x 30 cm (fair condition) - Prophetic, Picturesque and Useful Almanac for 1844, published by the author of Nostradamus, illustrated by Gavarni, Daumier etc., published by Aubert, 179 pp., plain cover - Royal Almanac for the years 1814 and 1815, by Testu, 830 pp., substantial volume, paper cover with scrollwork - *Le Monde illustré*, 3 volumes: 2nd half-years of 1876, 1877 & 1879, hundreds of engravings (including a leaflet on the 1878 World’s Fair), fair condition (missing pages) - History of the Revolutions in Portugal, Vertot, published by Pierre Didot, 1806, XVI+191 pp., attractive binding - Supplement to Baltasar Gracian’s *The Courtier*, by André Rouveyre, Editions du Trianon, no. 106 on Rives-style laid paper, 1928, 119 pp., 4 copperplate engravings by Georges Gorvel & original woodcuts by Angelina Beloff (headbands & tailpieces), fragile stitching - *Elementary Mythology for Use in Schools and Boarding Schools*, illustrated with 16 intaglio-engraved plates, published by Le Prieur, 1807, 276 pp., half-leather binding, incomplete table of contents - History of France from the Earliest Times to the Death of Louis XVI, by Anquetil, Pourrat frères, 1838–1839, Volume 1: 592 pp.; Volume 2: 636 pp.; Volume 3: 650 pp.; Volume 4: 644 pp. & XLII pp. of ‘Considérations’ by Chateaubriand, numerous engravings as inserts, fine half-leather binding - A Summary of Roman Jurisprudence, divided into seven parts in the style of Justinian’s Pandects, compiled by Claude Colombet, published by Jacques le Gras, 1663, 514 pp. + table of contents, bound in full speckled calfskin (spine cracked, water-stains) - *Parallel History: History of the United States from 1917 to 1961*, André Maurois, Presse de la Cité, 1962, 369 pp. + table of contents, no. 126/1000, loose sheets in a slipcase and outer box - A History of the Privileged Classes in Ancient Times, Léon de Givodan, Au collège héraldique, 1861, 2 volumes in 1 book (complete) 313 & 436 pp., covers detached Expert: Mr Geoffroi PICARD DU CHAMBON
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