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;) ;) ;) | ANDRIEUX Clément-Auguste Souvenir d'un assiégé par Andrieux Paris (1871) Title page + 30 plates. 1st ed., mostly fine in worn and damaged original cloth. The plates clean but some with stains in margins. 15.5 x 11" | £1,500.00 |
;) | ANON Livre de poste ou Etat général des postes du royaume de France: - suivi de la carte géométrique des routes desseires en poste, avec désignation des relais et des distances: pour l'an 1825. Paris, Imprimerie Royale (1825) 247pp. 1st ed., a very clean copy in crude later card binding. A scarce road book. | £90.00 |
;) ;) | ANON 50 Vues de Paris et Versailles (1890 (circa)) Album containing 50 chromolitho views of historical buildings and street scenes. Fine and complete. | £40.00 |
;) | BAEDEKER Karl Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire excluding Paris and its environs Karl Baedeker, Leipzig (1909) xxxvi + 454pp + folding maps. 5th revised ed., a little light foxing on page edges, one page torn without loss, former owner's name on inside end paper otherwise clean in bright original cloth. | £12.00 |
;) ;) ;) | BOUR C. and BERTRAND Auvergne. - Costumes ou Puy de Dome dessines et lithographies. Publie par Talbot (1856 (circa)) Title page and 16 hand coloured plates. Some very light tone spotting mostly confined to margins otherwise fine in fine original blindstamped cloth, top of spine with some wear. 9 x 6in Possibly lacking 4 plates. | £160.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | DE LAT Nieuw en beknopt Kaart-Boekje, vertoonende de XVII. Nederlandse Provintien Deventer, Joan de Lat (1735) [5] + 23 folding maps and 2 folding tables. 2nd ed. Fine in original very worn half calf with marbled boards. The hand coloured maps numbered neatly in ink. Very seldom found complete. | £1,200.00 |
;) ;) | DODGSON C. Old French colour prints. Halton & Truscott Smith, London (1924) 30pp + 88 plates. Ltd. ed. of 1250 copies in decorated quarter vellum binding. Very fine. A number of plates in colour which are individually tipped in. A fine work. | £85.00 |
;) ;) ;) | DORIS Charles de Bourges Amours de Napoleon - et des Princes et Princesses de sa Famille. B. Renault, Paris (1838) 2 vols. 148 + 140pp. Some light tone spots hardly detract. Fine in original quarter calf with marbled boards. Includes 4 line engravings besides the two frontispieces. Rare - I can trace only two copies of this edition in libraries and none for sale. | £130.00 |
;) ;) | JOINVILLE Prince de Notes sur l'état des forces navales de la France Paris (1844) 64pp. 1st ed., author's name added in ink to title page otherwise clean in original half calf. | £36.00 |
;) ;) ;) | LEPAN Armee Francaise composee et lithographiee Paris, Lemiere Editeur, Galerie d'Orleans (1870 (circa)) 18 coloured views + title page. 1st ed., a few marks on margins otherwise clean in worn original cloth. 8 x 6" Very scarce | £200.00 |
;) ;) | MAURY Arthur Les Emblémes et drapeaux de la france. - Le Coq Gaulois. Paris (1904) 354pp + colour plates. 1st ed., very fine in later half maroon calf retaining original card covers. | £120.00 |
;) | MURRAY John A Handbook for Travellers in France. Part II. John Murray, London (1892) 425 + 52pp adverts. + folding maps and large folding map in rear pocket. Contents fine in rather worn original cloth. | £75.00 |
;) | PROST B. Traicté de la forme et devis comme on faict les Tournois - par Olivier de la Marche, Hardouin de la Jaille, Anthoine de la Sale, etc. Paris (1878) xix + 259pp + errata + table + 16 hand coloured plates, 9 double paged. Ltd. ed., no. 117 of 260. Fine in original cloth with marbled boards, partially uncut. Contains eight early texts on tournaments with lovely delicately hand coloured plates. | £350.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | SAMS W. A tour through Paris, - illustrated with twenty one coloured plates, accompanied with descriptive letter-press. London (1824-5 (circa)) 21 hand coloured aquatint plates after V. Auger and others plus descriptive text. 1st ed., fine in contemporary half calf with raised bands. Small folio. (15 x 10.5in) All plates very fine and fresh but minor tone spotting affecting some pages of text. The finely coloured plates depict scenes of everyday life in Paris. Abbey Travel I, 113-4; Colas 2898; Tooley 443. | £2,400.00 |
;) ;) ;) | STANFIELD Clarkson STANFIELD'S COAST SCENERY. A Series of Views in the British Channel, from Original Drawings taken Expressly for the Work by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A Smith, Elder & Co (1836) 1st ed., viii +128 pp. illustrated with 40 highly-finished steel-engraved views including the vignette on the title-page. Stains to margins of plates as usual otherwise very clean in original blind stamped cloth with gilt decoration, spine faded. Views of English and French ports. | £90.00 |
;) ;) ;) | TALLEMANT Love tales from Tallemant. Grafton & Co (1925) 247pp. Private press ltd. ed. of 1000 on special paper. Fine in original cloth with small mark on front board. Foxing to end papers and prelims. and on page edges otherwise clean. Stories of French court life in the times of Henri IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV. | £35.00 |
;) | TOOLEY R.V. Map Collectors' Circle No. 26 - The maps of South West France with special reference to Cognac. London (1965) 14pp + 24 plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. buff card covers (7.5 x 10in). | £12.00 |
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WINTER Richard F. Richard F. Winter collection of U.S. - France Mails by Steamship: 1838 to General Postal Union. Society of Postal Historians 1998 100 large pp (approx.) clean in spiral ring binding. Photocopy of the author's collection.
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1845 (28 Apr) boxed COLONIES &c ART 12 boxed mark on EL from Lisbon to Paris, endorsed 'Pr Packet Steamer via of England.' Good s/l 'LISBON' and London b/stamp. Rated 15 decimes. The convention requiring the use of Article 12 for unpaid letters "From other Colonies and Countries beyond sea" for France went into effect on June 1, 1843.
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