Yverdon. 1779. xii,345pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities lightly rubbed, front hinge tender. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Quite clean internally Very good. In a tan cloth box, gilt leather label. Second printing of this early French account of the Revolution, scarcer than the Paris printing of.....
Paris. 1845. 72pp. Large folio. 19th-century cloth, spine stamped in black. Corners rubbed. Later notes on front endpapers and on one text leaf by Henry Harrisse. Very good. Duflot de Mofras, a French diplomat and early traveller to California, here offers a study of two Spanish explorers and sailors, Pedro.....
[ Np: G. Desprez], 1764. vi,58pp. Modern calf, spine gilt, leather label. A fine copy. Dumorey was engineer to the King and engineer-in-chief of the province of Burgundy. This is a scarce account of the potential advantages of the projected canal to be built linking the Seine and the Saone.....
Paris: Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaine, Imprimerie de Jules Didot L'aine, 1834. Two text volumes plus atlas volume. Text: [4],xiv,[2],20,56,40,88; 82,224,[4]pp., printed in double columns in first volume. Atlas: [23]pp. (interspersed throughout as section titles), plus 167 plates (one double- page) on 162 leaves, with many plates containing more than.....
Paris. 1751. [2],31,108,91pp. Quarto. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Spine mostly perished. Light wear to wrappers, internally fresh and clean. Very good. Memorial of Joseph François Dupleix (1697-1763), Governor General of India, detailing the ongoing feud between him and Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, and reporting on Dupleix's activities in India.....
[Paris]: Ch. Est. Chenault, 1762. 52,[2]pp. Quarto. Modern boards. Few fox marks, else very good. Summary of a lawsuit brought by M. Dupont de Malabray of France against his uncle's widow, Mme. Beaufils, residing in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). Dupont's uncle, Anceny des Touches, had made a fortune in sugar plantations.....
Paris. 1812. 215pp. Later 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Light foxing. Very good. Bookplate of Alexis and Elizabeth DuPont on front free endpaper. A translation of Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem ORLANDO FURIOSO into French, with the Italian and French on facing pages. The work.....
Paris: Chez Firmin Didot Freres, 1843. viii,xiii,429pp. plus four folding plates (one colored), and folding map. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Some very minor foxing. A very good copy in a handsome binding. A detailed study of the mining of precious metals in Mexico by a man.....
Paris: Chez Thomas Jolly, 1667-1671. Four volumes bound in three. [20],593,[3]; [16],539; [16],317,[8]; [6],362,[13]pp., plus eighteen plates (many folding) and five folding maps. Extra engraved titlepage in first and second volumes. Plate of arms in first, third, and fourth volumes. Contemporary calf, leather labels, spines gilt extra. Minor rubbing, some.....
Rouen: L. Oursel, 1790. 3pp. [with:] [PRINTED FORM LETTER, COMPLETED IN MANUSCRIPT, CONCERNING THE PROCLAMATION]. [N.p. 1790]. [1]p. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Light wear and soiling. Very good. Proclamation by the Revolutionary government of France, abolishing the monopoly of the French East India Company on trade beyond the.....
London, W. & C. Spilsbury, 1796. [1],71pp. Dbd. Foxing in first few leaves, else near fine. A French-language response, "en forme de supplément," to William Eden, Baron Auckland's 1795 pamphlet, SOME REMARKS ON THE APPARENT CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE WAR.... OCLC attributes the work to Eden; whether or not this is.....
[Paris]. 1782. [2],158pp. Engraved frontispiece. Modern blue morocco and mottled paper boards, spine gilt. Gilt insignia of the French "Order of the Star" ("Monstrant Regibus Astra Viam") on front board and on bookplate on front pastedown. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Final text leaf lightly browned around edges. Near fine. Authorship.....
Mexico: Impresso Por Igancio Cumplido, 1840. 96,[4]pp. plus one plate. Contemporary pictorial wrappers. Spine reinforced with archival tape, minor dust soiling. Very good. Variant issue, without priority, also printed in New Orleans in the same year. The text of a letter sent to Mexican president Anastasio Bustamente, calling for a......
Paris & Bruselles. 1866. xvi,456pp. Frontis. Half title. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed, some light scattered foxing. Else very good. An account of the Indians of the American Northwest and Canada (including the Eskimo and Sioux) and the Catholic missions there, by a missionary. The.....
Paris. 1837. [4],227pp. Original pink wrappers. Spine mostly perished, soiling and wear to covers. Text clean. Good. Unopened. The narrative of Nicolas Federmann, a German conquistador and early explorer of Venezuela and Colombia between 1529 and 1531. Part of Federmann's claim to fame is that he took part in a......
Paris: L. Maison, 1850. [4],386pp. plus eight engraved plates and maps, including large folding map. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards moderately rubbed and worn at edges, corners, and joints. Light foxing and tanning throughout. Folding map with expertly repaired closed tears. Very good.....
Paris. 1785. [4],xvi,234pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt extra, leather label, patterned endpapers. Extremities rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good plus. The first French edition of Filson's pioneering history of the settlements in Kentucky, issued the year after.....
Paris. 1862. [4],239pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight chipping and wear along spine. Very good. Untrimmed. "This survey, with distinct religious and anti-slavery bias, is the result of a residence of nine months in the United States during 1861" - Monaghan. Includes chapters on presidential elections, religion in the United States.....
Paris. Feb. 22, 1788. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Manuscript notation at top of first page. Minor toning. Very good. A decree according a "protection particulière" on commerce between the United States and France, particularly the fisheries.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre, 1793. 4pp. In French. Small quarto bifolium. Slight chipping at fold, verso of first leaf tape-repaired in upper margin, else very good. Two decrees of the National Convention concerning trade between French colonies and the U.S. The first deals specifically with American ships carrying.....
[Paris. 1679]. Broadside, 48 x 35.5 cm. Folded, large dampstain affecting top and bottom, else very good. This broadside is signed in print: "Saint Germain en Lay, 24 Oct. 1679...Colbert." One of the chronic problems faced by France was a shortage of shipping, which put the country at a disadvantage.....
Paris. An XI - 1803. [4],314,[1]pp. plus frontispiece. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Front hinge tender. Internally clean. Near fine. An essay on the Robbinia tree, or Black Locust, by a member of the Senat Conservateur and L'Institut National. It contains the author's essay plus.....
Paris. 1872. 113,[1]pp. 16mo. Original printed blue wrappers. Spine chipped, covers loosening and lightly soiled. Internally clean. Very good. Much later edition of Franklin's WAY TO WEALTH, published by the Societé Frankline.
Paris & London. 1817. [2],xxxi,409,[1]pp. Mid-19th century three-quarter pebbled cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Light scattered foxing. Very good. A scarce volume of selected correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, translated into French.
Paris: Chez Durand, 1752. 24,lxx,[10],222,[2],[30]pp. plus folding plate. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label, edges stained red. Corners and spine extremities lightly worn. Slight separation at fold of plate. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript table of contents on front free endpaper. Very good. The first French edition.....
