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La Terreur / Etudes Critiques sur l'Histoire de la Revolution Française [Reign of Terror, French Revolution]
by Wallon, H. [Henri Alexandre]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Elizabethtown, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Hachette, 1881. Nouvelle edition. First published in 1873. Complete in two volumes in attractive fine bindings. A study of the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. A classic work by [Henri Alexandre] Wallon, a French historian and statesman who played an important role in creation of the Third Republic (1870-1940.) All text is in French. Two 12mo volumes: iv, 349 pp., + 358 pp. Bound in red leather and marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers. Raised spine bands, gilt lettering and decoration. Top edges stained red. Green ribbon page markers. VG with wear at the corners, minor scuffs to the leather. Some foxing of the outer page edges, but text clean and unmarked. Both volumes sound and tight. Original yellow paper front wraps bound in. A very nice set, as shown. Provenance: Ink stamp on the front blank endpaper in each volume of Ben Morreale / Plainfield, Vt. [Baldassre De Marco "Ben" Morreale, 1924-2008, was an Italian-American educator and author whose books include Sicilian novels and the historical work, La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience. After serving in World War II, he attended the Sorbonne in the 1950s and wrote his dissertation on Thomas Paine and the French Revolution.]
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- Bookseller
- Lux Libri
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047915
- Title
- La Terreur / Etudes Critiques sur l'Histoire de la Revolution Française [Reign of Terror, French Revolution]
- Author
- Wallon, H. [Henri Alexandre]
- Format/Binding
- Fine Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1881
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine binding; Leather Bindings; Foreign Language; European History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Elizabethtown, New York
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- 12mo
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- Gilt
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- VG
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