Rotterdam. 1781. viii,70,116pp. Later paper wrappers. Spine lightly chipped. Later bookplate on front pastedown. Negligible soiling. Very good plus. In a blue half morocco and cloth folder. French language edition on Howe's campaigns in America. Howe, as commander-in-chief of the British forces during the American Revolution, led his troops to.....
Paris & Lyon. 1837. iv,415pp. Portrait. Half title. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Somewhat rubbed, boards bit discolored, scattered foxing. Good. A biography of the first Catholic bishop of Boston. He sailed for Boston in the fall of 1796, and for a time served among the Penobscots.....
Paris. 1888. [2],339pp. plus folding map. Original printed wrappers. Rear cover and endpaper detached, small library label at toe of spine. Internally clean. Very good, largely unopened and untrimmed. The author sailed from Europe to New York, then went on to Canada, through Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Pacific coast.....
Paris. 1793. 354pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Toe of spine bit scuffed, corners worn. Internally quite fresh and clean. Overall very good, with the bookplate of Philippe de Vilmorin. First French edition of Hunter's highly popular work, CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF PEGU... (Calcutta, 1785), translated from.....
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, Janvier 1856. 240pp. Dbd., original rear wrapper present but detached. Quite clean internally, and in very good condition. In a half morocco box. A scarce French printing of the principles, history, laws, constitution, and status of the Icarian communities in the United States. Founded by Étienne Cabet.....
London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son, 1795. vi,77pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Early ink signature on titlepage. Very good. First of two editions. A fascinating account of the spread of the French Revolution to Geneva between 1792 and 1794, in three letters and a postscript written between August 1794 and.....
Bordeaux: Par S. Millanges, 1608, 1610, 1614. Three volumes. Titlepages printed in red and black. Engraved title in second volume. [12],699,[17]; [8],699,[41]; [12],1067,[35]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum over boards, leather ties. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Some light soiling to second volume. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. First edition. One of.....
Paris: Chez Desenne, [ 1796], An 4 de l'Ere Francaise. 68pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Some soiling and staining to the titlepage and light staining throughout. Good. Untrimmed and unopened. A scarce French printing and examination of "Jay's Treaty" of 1794, signed between the United States and England, and.....
Paris. 1802. pp.322-331 plus plate. Original blue printed paper wrappers. A few chips to spine. Minor soiling. Light dampstaining to inner upper corner of each plate. Very good. Untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case. Thomas Jefferson's article on the design of his moldboard plow, one of his.....
A Londres [but actually Paris or Amsterdam]. 1784. [2],xxii,[2],314,[1]pp. plus frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Contemporary spotted calf, boards ruled in gilt, rebacked with portion of original spine laid down. Corners worn, some scuffing to boards. Contemporary ownership markings in signatures, slightly later ownership inscription on front free endpapers. Occasional dampstaining at.....
Paris: Chez David, 1780-1781. Six volumes, consisting of I, II, IIII, V, VI, and VII (without volumes III and VIII). With hundreds of illustrations. Contemporary mottled French calf, neatly rebacked in matching style, gilt extra, leather spine labels stamped in gilt. A bit of light scattered foxing, but generally quite.....
Liege. 1783. xii,235,[1]pp. Without the ten page supplement, which is not always present. Half title. Handsomely bound in contemporary French mottled calf, raised bands, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco label. Light shelf wear. Quite clean internally. A near fine copy. In a cloth chemise and slipcase, gilt leather label. A.....
Liege. 1783. xii,235,[1]pp. plus 10pp. supplement (not found in all copies). [bound following:] Lacombe, François: TABLEAU DE LONDRES ET DE SES ENVIRONS, AVEC UN PRECIS DE LA CONSTITUTION DE L'ANGLETERRE, & DE SA DECADENCE. Londres et a Bruxelles, 1784. 191pp. Joly with the half title; Lacombe without the half title.....
[Paris]: Imprimerie de Patris, 1796. [2],403pp. Half title. 19th-century calf-backed boards, spine gilt. Corners lightly worn, boards and spine sunned. Bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. First edition of this military history of maritime engagements during the American Revolutionary War. Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer and naval officer.....
[Np]. 1746. 108pp. plus folding plate. Polished black calf, gilt. Joints worn, ex-lib. with bookplates, blindstamp on rear cover. A few leaves tanned, else internally very nice and clean. La Condamine was a member of a scientific party dispatched to the equator by the French Academy of Science to assist.....
Montreal: Ludger Duvernay, 1834. 75pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. Rear wrapper creased and separated along lower half of spine. Light foxing in lower margin of text. Overall internally clean. Very good. A scathing anti-British political tract, offering strong evidence of the early combative tone between French- Canadian officials who resented British.....
Paris. [ 1799]. Eight volumes. Three folding maps, nine folding tables. Uniformly bound to style in three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Unobtrusive old blindstamps on each title. Scattered foxing. Map of the U.S. has a very narrow strip of loss (1/16 inch) along the center fold, replaced with reinforcing tissue.....
Paris. [1800]. Two text volumes plus atlas. Text volumes: xvi,440; 332,110,[2]pp. Atlas: Title-leaf, folding chart of the Pacific, and forty-three engraved plates. Contemporary half gilt calf and boards. Slight wear to spine of atlas and outer edge of front board, else a fine set. The first edition of this narrative.....
Montréal: Librairie Saint-Joseph, 1897. 86,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, spine faded and chipped. Manuscript inscription on front wrapper. Tanned, corners lightly worn. Good. A turn of the 20th century tract on perceived issues and problems affecting schools in Manitoba, presented in the form of a dialogue and from a Catholic, French.....
Paris. 1788-1789. Two volumes. 17,[1],651; [4],19,[1],144,527pp. plus sixty- three plates and two large folding tables. Thick quarto. Contemporary patterned calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Head and foot of spines chipped, corners lightly bumped, hinges tender. Minor scattered foxing. Table in front of first volume torn in gutter margin. Very good.....
Boston [i.e. Paris]: De l'Imprimerie du Congres, 1778. 37,[9]pp. 19th-century half calf and green paper boards, corners tipped in vellum, spine richly gilt. Very clean internally. Near fine. A rare and interesting poem, carrying a false Boston imprint, and supposedly penned by the Marquis de Lafayette while wintering with George.....
Paris. Juin, 1814. 91pp. Dbd. Contemporary inscription on verso of half title. Ink stamps on titlepage and first few leaves. Otherwise quite clean. Good. First edition. History of the conspiracy of General Claude François de Malet, who was executed in October of 1812 after a failed coup to topple Napoleon's.....
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The Hague: Chez les Freres l'Honore, 1703. Two volumes. [24],279pp. plus frontispiece, two folding maps, eleven plates (two folding); 220,[17]pp. plus folding map and eleven plates (three folding). 12mo. Later 19th-century half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Extremities rubbed. Large folding map reinforced at folds. Some light toning and.....
Paris. 1879. iv,373pp. plus plates and maps (some folding). Half title. Original wrappers. Textblock split. Very good. Contains some description of the northern U.S., but pertains mostly to Canada, including Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Ontario, Manitoba and Winnipeg, with information concerning tourist attractions, etc.
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1841-1854. Six volumes. xxxix,343,[3]; [4],467,[3]; [2],548,[1]; [4],464,[3]; [4],iii,542,[2]; [4],400pp., plus two maps and thirty-one plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Some light foxing. Very good. "This is the official account of Laplace's second voyage of circumnavigation....This voyage of the Artémise is.....
