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Superb illustrated set of this mordant social and political satire of the 19th century, where the eponymous character embodies the illusions, ambitions, and contradictions of post-revolutionary French bourgeoisie -

Volume I, entitled Jérôme Paturot in Search of a Social

Literature, Illustrated, History, Politics - Quantity: 2 - Book

Louis Reybaud / Tony Johannot - Jérôme Paturot - 1849

For sale: most rare publication Discours et Rapport Véritable de la Conférence tenue entre les Députez de la part de Monsieur le Duc de Mayenne, Lieutenant Général de l’Estat et Couronne de France, Princes, Prélats et Estats Généraux assemblez à Paris : Avec les Députez de

History - Quantity: 1 - Book

duc de Mayenne - Conférence de Suresne Conversion d'Henri IV [Paris vaut bien une messe!] - 1593

ACQUET-DELAHAYE-AVROUIN (17..-18..). On the restoration of churches in France on the occasion of the planned rebuilding of the cells of Saint-Martin de Tours.

4to (316 x 238mm)

Paris: A. Egron, printer-bookseller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Angoulême, 1822.

Rarissima

Architecture, Art, History, Religion, Politics, Napoleon - Quantity: 1 - Signed, Signed by author, Hand coloured illustrations, Tipped in plates - Book

ACQUET-DELAHAYE-AVROUIN (17..-18..) - Du rétablissement des églises en France à l’occasion de la réédification projectée de cells de - 1822

Important complete collection of the 1857 issue year of L’Illustration – Journal Universel, the famous 19th-century French illustrated periodical, published in Paris on Rue Richelieu. Collected edition in two volumes comprising the first and second half-year.

– Volume XXIX:

Art, History, Natural History, Architecture, Archaeology, Fashion, Politics - Quantity: 2 - Book

Vari illustratori - L’Illustration -Journal Universel - 1857

Splendid four-volume set (each volume features a steel engraving with a serpentine border in the frontispiece, a large folding map enhanced with colored borders at the end of Volume IV) of this historical study devoted to the military, religious, and political expeditions

History, War history, Cartography, Geography, Illustrated, Reference - Quantity: 4 - Book

Jean-François Michaud - Histoire des Croisades - 1857

The Epic of the French Military Costume.
The Epic of the French Military Costume is a chronological journey through the history of French military uniforms. The book spans from the early origins of Gaul to the mid-19th century (Second Empire).
The work is essentially divided into

Military, War history, History - Quantity: 1 - Book

L'epopée du costume militaire francais. - Farbuniformtafeln - 1898

[JESUITS - QUESNEL (Pierre)]

History of the Religious of the Society of Jesus. Containing what has happened in this order from its establishment up to the present. To serve as a Supplement to the Ecclesiastical History of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

Soleure, chez Les

History, Religion - Quantity: 3 - Book

Pierre Quesnel - Histoire des religieux de la Compagnie de Jésus - 1740

BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne. Discourse on Universal History to His Serene Highness the Dauphin, to explain the succession of religion and the changes of Empires, from the beginning of the world to the Empire of Charlemagne.
Paris, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1681.
2 volumes in 1

History, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Bossuet - Discours sur l'histoire universelle - 1681

Beautiful edition in its pretty Hetzel publisher’s casebound, with the golden globe of this adventure novel written by Jules Verne and illustrated with 59 drawings by George Roux, 12 chromotypographies in color, and numerous photographic views and 2 maps -

The story opens with a

Literature, History, Illustrated, Travels, Cartography, Geography - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jules Verne / Georges Roux - Les Frères Kip - 1902

History of France.
Michelet.
18 volumes.
Boutan-Marguin editions

History - Quantity: 18 - Book

Jules Michelet - Histoire de France - 1961

Rare and evocative complete issue of the famous French illustrated periodical L’Illustration – Journal Universel, comprising volumes XXVII and XXVIII for the year 1856.
Edition published in Paris, Rue Richelieu, in two large-format volumes with antique hard binding. Complete work

Art, History, Natural History, Architecture, Archaeology, Politics, Travels - Quantity: 2 - Book

Vari illustratori - L’Illustration - 1856

The Life of My Father. By the author of The Perverted Peasant.
Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne [Restif de la Bretonne]
Published in Neuchâtel, and is located in Paris, at the Widow Duchesne’s, 1788, Third Edition.
2 volumes, full leather, 18.5 x 11.5 cm, of (2)-232 and 222-(4)

Literature, History, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Tipped in plates - Book

Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne - La Vie de mon père - 1788

Louis Énault – L’Inde pittoresque – Paris, Morizot, 1861 – approx. 502 pages – richly illustrated edition in a decorative publisher's binding.
A handsome French work on India from the 19th century. The book covers the rivers of India, history, Indian religion, Hindu literature,

Travels, History, Agriculture - Quantity: 1 - Book

Louis Énault - L’Inde pittoresque - 1861

A pair of original 18th-century volumes from the celebrated Histoire Ancienne by Charles Rollin, one of the most influential historical works of the Enlightenment period.

Volume VII (1735) – Histoire Ancienne des Grecs.
Volume X (1737) – Histoire Ancienne des Égyptiens,

History, Egypt - Quantity: 2 - Book

Charles Rollin - Charles Rollin – Histoire Ancienne – Tome VII & Tome X – Paris, 1735 & 1737 – Contemporary Full - 1735-1737

3 books on the history of France.
Abbé d'Olivet.
History of the French Academy from 1652 to 1700.
Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard, 1730; (4)+406+(14) pp.
Contemporary full calf binding (16x9.5cm, upper board, corners & upper spine damaged, spine split), handwritten note on title

History - Quantity: 3 - Book

D'Olivet & Anquetil & Péréfixe - Histoire de France - 1730-1807

An exceedingly charming 18th-century French book box, cleverly fashioned as a secret compartment or "boîte à secrets."

This fascinating piece measures 17 x 10 cm.

It is disguised as volume twenty-two of the Histoire de France, published in Paris in 1788 by Saillant & Nyon and

History, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

[Boîte à Secrets] M. Garnier - Histoire de France - 1788

Historical and practical treatise on ecclesiastical singing... (1741). One of the most authoritative and hard-to-find texts printed in the 18th century on Liturgical Singing in general and especially on Gregorian Chant. Full leather binding with signs of wear as shown in the

Lebeuf - Traité historique et pratique sur le chant ecclesiastique... Gregorian Chant - 1741

French North Africa in History by E. Albertini, G. Marçais and G. Yver - Geographical introduction by R. Lespès - Abundantly and richly illustrated with drawings in the text and 56 plates, of which 16 are in color by Roger J - Irriéra - Many full-page or double-page maps -

Africa, Anthropology, Geography, History, Colonial history, War history, Regional interest, Illustrated, Collected works, Politics, Reference, Topography, Travels - Quantity: 1 - Book

E. Albertini, G. Marçais, G. Yver - L'Afrique du Nord Française dans l'Histoire - 1937

Extremely rare edition of this work (enriched with 5 wood-engraved portraits in medallion in-text) historical which fits into the long tradition of royal chronicles intended to trace the history of the French monarchy from its origins to the era of its composition -

The work

History, Royalty, Heraldry - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jean du Tillet - La Chronique des Roys de France - 1550

Superb illustrated edition with 500 explanatory figures of this treatise devoted to the arts of divination and the methods of interpreting human character, which enjoyed great popularity between the 19th and early 20th centuries -

The work gathers and systematizes the theories

Esotericism, Psychology, Illustrated, History - Quantity: 1 - Book

A.-D. Desbarrolles - Révélations complètes, chiromancie phrénologie graphologie études physiologiques - 1922

MONTESQUIEU, Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755). Oeuvres de Montesquieu.

4to large format (316 x 232 mm)

Paris: at Plassan, Régent-Bernard, and Grégoire: From the Plassan printing office, 1796.

One of the rarest large-format fine-ink paper editions in-4, with post-litteram

Literature, Illustrated, Politics, Poetry, Fine Bindings, History - Quantity: 5 - Fold out maps or plates, Tipped in plates - Book

MONTESQUIEU, Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755) - Œuvres de Montesquieu - 1796

THREE STAGES OF MULHOUSE LIFE - 1798-1848-1948. 
Exemplaire n°65 /100 on Lana vellum 
Fine bibliophilic work published in 1948 by the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse to mark the 150th anniversary of Mulhouse's reunion with France.
Limited luxury edition numbered No. 65, part of

History, Regional interest, Illustrated, Photography - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket - Book

Société Industrielle de Mulhouse - 1798-1848-1948 Trois etapes de la vie Mulhousienne - 1948

Exciting numbered edition 366 on Arches vellum and illustrated with 8 beautiful original color lithographs by Walter Spitzer (with serpentine motif). This foundational novel of existentialist thought is a deep exploration of the human condition, consciousness, and the

Literature, Illustrated, History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jean-Paul Sartre / Walter Spitzer - La nausée - 1964

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