Boston: Chez J.H.A. Frost, 1824. Second American Edition. 12mo. 379 pages + 3 pages advertisements. Contemporary sheep with spine lettered in gilt. Text in French, advertisements in English. Worn at extremities with exposure to edges and loss at spine ends, most significantly to top of spine with gatherings exposed..... More
Paris: Societe Franco-Belge De Materiel De Chemins De Fer, [1970s]. Quarto; unpaginated. Book is bound in a black presentation binder with internal metal spiral binding. Mustard yellow and white graphic cover. Full-color illustrations and diagrams throughout, some which fold-out. Text primarily in French with some portions also translated to English..... More
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1928. Later printing. Inscibed by author on half-title. Printed wraps. Sextodecimo; 116pp. Lower half of front cover is detached from spine, but top half is holding. Spine itself is chipped and worn and detached at bottom, and back cover is barely holding on. Edges are chipped and..... More
Maurice LaLau. Paris: Boivin & Cie, Editeurs, 1923. Later Printing of the 1914 First Edition. French language. Quarto; iv, 154pp. Nine mounted color plates, with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's pink cloth with color illustration to front. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with some scuffs down..... More
Paperback. Paris: Editiones Denoel, 1994. French-language. Signed by the author with brief inscription to fellow writer and journalist William Safire and his wife Helene on half title. Octavo; 302pp. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers faintly shelfworn but clean and crisp with no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More
Hardcover. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, [1876?]. Three-quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. 221p. Portrait frontis. Covers scuffed along fore-edge and bottm, with some light bumping to corners and spine ends. Pencil note on flyleaf, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. More
Amsterdam: Chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1715. 12mo; Vol I Tome I [xiv] + 352pp + 10pp of bound-in hand-transcribed text; Vol II Tome II [ii] + 156pp; Vol II Tome III [xxviii] + 200pp. Vol I frontis. engraved by Bernard Picart; title pages of both volumes have engraved allegorical vignettes;..... More
Spain: DeScheemaeker, 1993. First Edition. Quarto. 418 pages. No dust jacket as issued (?). Black and white and color illustrations throughout, some fold-out. Magenta faux leather boards with spine and front stamped in gilt. A sampling of a variety of old documents, coins, photographs, and maps, etc.... More
Jules Férat. Hardcover. Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1926]. Seventy-Second Edition. Two Volumes. Les Mondes Connus et Inconnus Series / Collection Hetzel. Octavos (7" x 4.75"); [iv], 288p, [iv], 261p. Illustrated frontis in each, with in-text illustrations throughout. Red publisher's cloth with gilt and black stamped lettering and ornamentation. Boards are bright..... More
London: Richard Priestley, 1825. Octavo; xxviii + 675pp, including preliminary preface, comparative timeline; list of authorities and five terminal indexes: historical, geographical, lexical, annotative, and grammatical. Prize binding from the Oundle Grammar School, in polished honey-hay calf. Raised spine bands; title in gilt against black on spine; other compartments fully..... More
Paris: Horizons de France; 1949. First Edition. Octavo; 174pp. B&W photographs, illustrations, and painting reproductions throughout. Original full-color French broché cover bound in as first page; original two-color broché spine bound in among end leaves. Privately rebound by previous owner with black leather spine, gold spine lettering, faux marbleized blue..... More
![Alger et ses Peintres 1830-1960 [Painters of Algiers 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5525.jpg?v=1570562132)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2000. First Edition. Folio; 286pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured deep ochre boards with gold stamping on spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge, but with no chips or tears. Binding tight and square. The first in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué..... More
![L'Algérie des peintres 1830-1960 [Painting in Algeria 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5517.jpg?v=1570560685)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2002. First Edition. Folio; 318pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Spine slightly cocked; binding otherwise tight. The second in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying Algerian painting region by region. Full-color reproductions on most..... More
![L'Algérie du Sud et ses Peintres 1830-1960 [The Painters of Southern Algeria 1830-1960]. Marion...](/pictures/thumb/5520.jpg?v=1570561426)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2003. First Edition. Folio; 214pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacketover textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Jacket very lightly rubbed along bottom edge. Boards square with light bumps to corners and spine ends. The third in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying..... More
![Un Bal chez les Étoiles [A Dance Among the Stars]. Mathilde Vonwiller, Colette Sauter](/pictures/thumb/5835.jpg?v=1576609380)
Lausanne: Roth et Sauter / Au Verseau, 1966. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated [32pp]. Thirty-two full-layout illustrated pages with incorporated "hand cursive" text. Bound in stiff card with deep reverse flaps. Binding and pages printed throughout in wedgewood blue on off-white, with text in red. Entirely in French. Binding edge-folds..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1873 [1872]. First Edition. Quarto; vi + 571pp. Fourteen full-color chromolithographs; 409 engravings embodied within the text, many full-page. Bright crimson leather back and joints with cosmetically matched percaline-covered boards (as published); all surfaces stamped in gilt with eclectic neo-celtic-cum-baroque designs. Lettering on panels..... More
Paris: H.R. Guérin & L.F. Delatour, 1757. "Nouvelle Édition." 12mo; [22pp] + xxxvi + 574pp. Modern rebinding in maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Binding as new; textblock unmarred and complete, with minor foxing, and previous owners' signatures facing initial dedicatory page. Preliminary unpaginated material includes 2-page dedication “À..... More