927 - 1098 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Not collated but apparently complete. Vol.1 occas. sl. foxed. All vols. binding sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Contains the following: vol.1, no.1-45; vol.3, no.77-105 in French/ Dutch language, and vol.7, no.220-262.
- Lacks frontisp.; yellowed/ sl. mouldy at the beginning; wormholed in upper inner margin almost throughout; occas. waterst.; some old annots.
- Dustwrappers stained on backstrips, occas. foxed and dustwr. vol. II and IV sl. dam. Internally fine.
= Vol. I. 1759, 1761 and 1763; vol. II. 1765; vol. III. 1767; vol. IV. 1769, 1771, 1775 and 1781.
Wildenstein, G. (ed.). Le Salon de 1725. Paris, G. Servant, 1924, 59,(1)p., printed in 500 copies, orig. wr.
- Wr. foxed, internally fine.
- Sl. browned. A fine copy.
= With bibliographical pencil annots. by Gerrit Komrij on first blank. Barbier I, p.965; Querard III, p.682. Dictionary of the "pennants", the careerists and opportunists on the political scene and in the culture of post-revolutionary France. The number of steps with which someone has advanced his own career is indicated by the number of pennants printed after each name. Warranted by the author/ publisher.
AND 2 others in 3 vols.: E.B. COURTOIS, Rapport fait au nom de la commission chargée de l'examen des papiers trouvées chez Robespierre et ses complices (Paris, 1795, modern hleather) and MÉMOIRES SUR LES PRISONS (...) (ibid., 1823, 2 vols., later unif. hleather).
- Occas. sl. foxed. Joints rubbed. Otherwise fine. = Rare.
Capefigue, J.B.H.R. l'Europe pendant la Révolution française. Brussels, Wouters & Cie., 1844, 4 parts in 1 vol., 4 diff. lithogr. frontisp. portraits on chine collé, contemp. gilt hcl.
- Frontisp. sl. foxed (not affecting portraits).
AND 4 others similar, i.a. H. GAUTIER, L 'An 1789 (Paris, n.d. (±1890), num. plates and ills., contemp. giltlettered hmor., large 4to. Binding sl. rubbed).
- Without the 2nd vol.; frontisp. margins restored (sl. loss of image); sl. yellowed and fingersoiled.
= First and only edition in Dutch. Rare.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION by G. Shapiro on first free endpaper.
Choudhury, M. Convents and nuns in eighteenth-century French politics and culture. Ithaca/ London, Cornell Univ. Press, 2004, IX,(3),234p., ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. - AND 12 others, all fine copies in orig. cl. w. dustwr., all but 1 English language, i.a. S.L. KAPLAN, Farewell, Revolution. Disputed Legacies France 1789/1989 (ibid., 1995); J. SHOLVIN, The Political Economy of Virtue. Luxury, Patriotism, and the origins of the French Revolution (ibid., 2006); D. GARRIOCH, The Making of Revolutionary Paris (Berkeley, 2002) and R. BALLARD, The Unseen Terror. The French Revolution in the Provinces (London/ New York, 2010).
- All vols. (sl.) yellowed. Vol.1 remnants of paper on spine; vol.6 spine sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine set.
- Two vols. w. sm. annots. on second blank; occas. trifle foxed. Covers trifle rubbed.
= Cf. Cioranescu 60650; Vicaire VII, p.654 (French ed. published in the same year).
AND 3 others in 8 vols., i.a. A. DE TILLY, Mémoires (Paris, 1828, 3 vols., later unif. cl.) and JOURNÉES MÉMORABLES DE LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE (ibid., 1829, 2 vols., steelengr. portraits/ plates, contemp. gilt calf w. 2 mor. letterpieces).
- Lacks first free endpaper; ±25 plates (sl.) foxed. Rebacked w. modern cl.; covers sl. rubbed/ worn; portion of paper title-piece missing.
= Vicaire VII, p. 826; Carteret III, p. 584; Brunet V, p. 822.
Idem. Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire faisant suite à l'histoire de la Révolution Française. Ibid., Paulin, 1845-1862, vols. 1-20 (of 21), contemp. unif. gilt cl.
- All vols. (occas.) (sl.) foxed; endpapers browned. A few vols. binding sl. stained; one vol. upper front corner dam.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Bindings sl. rubbed. = Vicaire VII, p.826.
- Occas. trifle foxed in margins. Backstrips rubbed. Good/ fine set.
- Vol. number pieces on spines of vol. 1 and 2 erroneously misbound; corners sl. rubbed. Good set.
- Foxed; one leaf frayed. Backstrip reattached; upper joint split; worn along extremities.
= Rare.
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed at the beginning. Joints and spine-ends rubbed; corners bumped. = Rare.
Scheltema, J. De laatste veldtogt van Napoleon Buonaparte. Ibid., H. Gartman, 1816, 2 parts in 1 vol., XVI,300; 172,(1)p., large fold. battle plan w. accomp. fold. explanatory leaf, sl. later blindst. cl.
- Lacks engr. title; partly vaguely waterst.; upper hinge weak. Backstrip sunned; joints and spine-ends rubbed.
AND 1 other.
- Sl. foxed; close tear in map. Bindings sl. rubbed; spine-ends worn/ sl. dam.
= Cat. des Russica II, p.296.
- Lacks 8 views; sl. foxed; partly waterst. in lower blank corner.
= Ray 123: "General Bacler d'Albe made many lithographs of scenery while he was on active duty. His best plates, however, were for his Parisian album."; Beraldi 85: "C'est un album à ne pas manquer quand on le rencontre".