London: John Murray, 1804. Second Edition. Small Octavo; Vol. I xvi + 379pp + 4pp of publisher's prospectus; Vol. II 420pp; Vol. III vi + 322pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses. Each volume has an engraved portrait frontispiece (Moreau, Pichegru, and the Duc d'Enghien, respectively); the third also includes a...... More

Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Éditeur, 1867. Small Octavo: Vol I 356pp; Vol II 297pp; Vol III 455pp; Vol IV 428pp; Vol V 372pp; Vol VI 372pp; Vol VII 353pp; Vol VIII 308pp; Vol IX 248pp. Entirely in French. Quarter-bound in umber morocco with raised spine bands and gilt lettering. Boards in..... More

Paris: Perrin et Cie / Librairie Acadèmique, 1912. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],279pp. Spine a bit faded, light wear to extremities, else Very Good and sound. Novel of French adolescence, the first to be awarded the Grand Prix de Littérature of the Académie Française..... More

Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1908?]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],iii,[1],381pp. Spine a bit faded, light foxing to text, else Very Good and sound. Diplomatic and political account of the United States. Later in his career Tardieu would act as three-time Prime Minister of France, from 1929 to..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943 but ca. 1960s]. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket (price. $3.75); 91pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. General toning and shelf wear to jacket extremities, including tiny chips and closed tear, price-clipped, coin-sized loss at bottom margin of rear panel..... More

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1867. 2e Édition. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],v,[1],253pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes essays on the Suez Canal..... More

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1866. Two volumes; small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],237; [2],238pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. More

London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, ca. 1870s. Large, thick quarto; contemporary half gilt-ruled morocco over cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; xxviii,737pp.; 118 plates, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Boards scuffed with exposure at corners, spine sunned and leather dried, stock a bit toned and brittle due to..... 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

Paris: Éditions Pierre Belton, [1966]. First Thus. 12mo (17.5cm.); contemporary orange cloth, black velour label lettered in gilt mounted to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine; 374pp. Near Fine condition. First published in 1866. More

Paris: Librairie Jacques Lecoffre, 1873. Cinquième édition, revue et augmentée. (Fifth edition, revised and augmented.) Seven volumes; octavo (22.5cm.); contemporary blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges speckled, marbled endpapers. Ex-Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry with their early 20th-century markings, boards a bit scuffed..... More

Paris: Éditions Georges-Anquetil, ca. 1920. Octavo (23cm.); later maroon cloth, red gilt morocco spine label; viii,728,[16](ads)pp. Bottom margins of both covers discolored from exposure to damp, text block uniformly toned, else Good to Very Good overall. Anthology of 18th-century French erotic and romantic literature. Authors include Diderot, Laclos, Casanova..... More

Paris: D'Auguste Delalain, 1822. First Edition. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"); [iv], 354pp. Contemporary stained calf with gilt decoration and lettering and black leather title card to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. 1820s school bookplate on front pastedown. Corners bumped and rubbed, with some scuffs down joints. Binding is sound..... More