An album of 102 engraved portraits of prominent mostly French men and women from the First Empire through Charles X, of which 91 are signed by the subjects under their lithographed likenesses. by S.M. Charles X. Roi de France.; Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; Pope Pius IX; Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé; et alia

Paris Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire, 39391925, paperback. Text in FRENCH. -- Social history focused on gardens, castles, visitors. Includes 40 plates. 121 pages, 9x11.5 inches. Large softcover. Condition: very good (cover light soil; binding bit fragile).

The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of Madame Roland, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eight B&W engravings are intact, including frontispiece. (Plate on page 97 has a deckled bottom edge.)Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with slight wear on heel and top. Pages are age tanned and have small stains. Two of the pages are uncut.All four endpapers are significantly discolored with a black waxy substance (see photos), something like crayon.

Baltimore, Philip H. Nicklin, 1811. Hard Cover. 236 p.; 19.5 cm. Biography of François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715), French theologian and educator and author of Télémachus in the early Republic and used to teach a moral life to a couple of generations of young Americans. American Imprints 22455a. This is an untrimmed copy in the original printed boards; paper spine almost entirely perished, wear to front cover; now protected in a clamshell box. Stock#OB113.

[Paris?] 1791. Soft Cover. 22 pages; 20 cm. "Par un homme qui fait bien ses comptes, qui vend ses propriétés pour payer; mais qui veut qu'on lui rende compte." This edition not in Martin & Walter (cf. IV 2: 3693). "Il existe une autre impression in-8 de ce texte datée de 1791, avec une pagination différente (23, [1] p.), ainsi qu'une impr. in-4 de 14, [2bl.] p." One of a collection of 40 Royalist and contre-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1042-1. VG / in marbled paper warapper.

Paris, Chez Perlet, 1792. Du Dimanche 3 Juin 1792. Séance de Vendredi soir. The contemporary French collector of the volume into which this piece was bound was interested in the full account of the fête for Jacques Guillaume Simonneau, "né 1740 à Étampes et mort assassin lors d'une émeute frumentaire le 3 mars 1792." "Simonneau est un industriel marchand-tanneur et maire d'Étampes de 1791-1792. Suite son assassinat, l'Assemblée législative fait célébrer en sa mémoire une Fête de la Loi le 3 juin 1792 à Paris"-- Wikipedia. One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1041-17. Soft Cover. Pages [17]-24; 21 cm. Caption title; imprint at end. In marbled paper wrappers.

[Paris? 1791?]. Soft Cover. 7, [1] pages; 19 cm. Caption title. Added title: "sur la grande question de savoir quelle manière l'Assemblée nationale devroit agir envers le roi: discours qui fut interrompu par M. Biozat, député de Clermont en Auvergne, sous précé The 6th of a collection of 40 Royalist and contre revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Waterstain lower corner. Stock#OB1042-6. Vg / in marbled paper wrapper.

Soft Cover. 8 p.; 20 cm. Caption title. Royalist tract in favor of retaining the monarchy. Martin & Walter, IV, 5838. One of a collection of 40 Royalist and contre revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Vg/ in marbled paper wrappers. Stock#OB1042-4.

EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000
Seattle, Washington USA 98155
Printed in the United States of America by
Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.

Rouen: Maison Mégard & Cie, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo (19 x 11 cm). 212 pp. Green pressed covers with gilt decorations to upper, lower and spine. Gilt titles to spine. Light wear to to corners, edges and spine. Yellow endpapers, text block tight and unmarked. Foxing to title page, less to text block. In French. OCLC 456900773 Notice et cote du catalogue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France FRBNF30067775.

771HigginsJuggler Higgins, Violet Moore. THE LITTLE JUGGLER and Other French Tales Retold. Story-Time Tales. 1917, Whitman Publishing Company Racine and Chicago. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included if issued. 70 pages 6 ½ X 8 5/8. A nice copy.