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Image for Nouveau Guide de Florence et ses Environs, Compris la Vallombrosa, Alvernia et Camaldule, avec la Description de la Galerie des Statues et de Celle du Palais Pitti, du Gabinet Physique Ec. Ec., Ornee de Vues et Statues Plan de la Ville et Carte de la Toscane.

Nouveau Guide de Florence et ses Environs, Compris la Vallombrosa, Alvernia et Camaldule, avec la Description de la Galerie des Statues et de Celle du Palais Pitti, du Gabinet Physique Ec. Ec., Ornee de Vues et Statues Plan de la Ville et Carte de la Toscane.

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Florence, Chez Gaspard Ricci Marchand Libraire: 1844

Seller ID: 2198748

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

New edition. Boards toned and lightly rubbed, front and end matter foxed, a few text pages foxed, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1844 Hard Cover. 293, 210 pp. 12mo. French text. A 19th century guide to Florence. Two fold-out maps precede text, engraved illustrations and drawings in text.
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Description de la Ville de Florence

By: N/A

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Florence, Au Cabinet a l'Enseigne de Pallas, Pres le Canto de' Pazzi, Rue Balestrieri.: 1819

Seller ID: 2198753

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Wrapper beginning to split along front joint, minor loss from spine, handwritten title on spine, ink name on front wrapper. 1819 Soft Cover. 171, [1], xxiv, [173]-178 pp. Printed wrappers. French text. An early 19th century guide to Florence, with fold-out map opposite title page.
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Image for Description de la Ville de Milan et de Ses Environs, Compris la Chartreuse Pres de Pavie et Excursions de Cette Capitale aux Lacs de Como, de Lugano, au Lac Majeur et a Varese, Exposees a l'Usage des Voyageurs, Accompagnees des Instructions et des Notices Nécessaires aux Etrangers qui se Proposent d'Examiner les Objets Interessans, que Presente Cette Belle Partie de la Lombardie

Description de la Ville de Milan et de Ses Environs, Compris la Chartreuse Pres de Pavie et Excursions de Cette Capitale aux Lacs de Como, de Lugano, au Lac Majeur et a Varese, Exposees a l'Usage des Voyageurs, Accompagnees des Instructions et des Notices Nécessaires aux Etrangers qui se Proposent d'Examiner les Objets Interessans, que Presente Cette Belle Partie de la Lombardie

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Milan, Chez Epimaque et Pascal Artaria: 1834

Seller ID: 2199179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Nicely rebound - red cloth spine, paper over boards, gilt titles. Small stamp of Peabody Library appears twice inside, with their number on title page, owner bookplate on front endpaper, ink initials on half-title page. 1834 Hard Cover. 264, viii pp. 12mo. French text. Includes two fold-out maps and a fold-out engraving of the Duomo di Milano. A 19th century guide to Milan focusing on local architecture and other picturesque site-seeing opportunities.
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Objectif Paris: Images de la Ville a Travers Cinq Collections Photographiques Parisiennes

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Phileas Frog Paris Musees: 2003

Seller ID: 2202734

ISBN: 2879008085

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Text in English and French. Page very faintly toned. 2003 Soft Cover. 142 pp. Text in English and French. Can anyone every capture Paris? Through the magificent visual journey that is prposed to use, we can find at once the high moments of History and the simplicity of common life, the great portraits of the capital as well as its metamorphoses. Reflected by the masters of yesterday or the photographers of today, the urban landscapes appeal to us like so many inner landscapes and moments of emotion.
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Cinq Siecles D'Imprimerie a Geneve, 1478-1978 [Five Centuries of Printing in Geneva] [FRENCH TEXT]

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Geneve, Impremeries Populaires et Kundig a Geneve: 1978

Seller ID: 2304110

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Front joint repaired. 1978 Large Hardcover. French text. Red boards with gilt decor. Red ribbon. Pages d'histoire composees, illustrees, imprimees et reliees, par des maitres et compagnons en hommage aux praticiens d'un noble corps de metier. [Pages of history composed, illustrated, printed and linked, by masters and companions in homage to the practitioners of a noble profession.]
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Atlas de Prehistoire, Tome I: Generalites--Methodes en Prehistoire [Prehistory, Volume I: General - Methods in Prehistory] (French Text)

By: Alimen, H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: .: 1965

Seller ID: 2289276

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

a few light smudges on front wrapper, ink stamp and pencil name on front flyleaf, faint stain. 1965 Soft Cover. 185 pp. Text in French. Includes 97 figures, 16 black-and-white plates, 4 color plates, and a fold-out map. Collection L'Homme et Ses Origines [collection man and his origins]. Stations Prehistoriques - Methodes en Prehistoire - Chronologie - Matieres Premieres et Techniques - Archeologie Prehistorique de L'Europe: Paleolithque; Mesolithique; Neolithique; Metaux; Vie des Hommes Prehistoriques [Prehistoric Stations - Methods in Prehistory - Chronology - Raw Materials and Techniques - ...
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Tresor des Anciens Jesuites (Bulletin No. 153, No. 43 de la Serie Anthropologie)

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Musee National du Canada: 1957

Seller ID: 2276391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed to Hella Sachs and signed by author on title page. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed. 1957 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xv, [1], 242 pp. French text. The title translates to 'Treasure of the Old Jesuits'. A study of artifacts left by the Jesuits, who colonized portions of Canada during the 17th century. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples.
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Cote, Sculpteur Sur Bois (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1942, Tome XXXVI [36]) [Jean-Baptiste Côté]

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1942

Seller ID: 2276905

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Letter press invitation laid in, reading 'DaLiLa vous prie de venir Manger La Galette des Rois. 6 Janvier 1943, A 9 heures P.M., 260 MacLaren, R.S.V.P.'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., whose wife Hella owned quite a few books by Marius Barbeau, several with notes from the author to her, indicating the two were either good friends or colleagues who worked closely together. 1942 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 3-11, [1] pp, twelve plates follow text. French text, title translates as Cote the Wood Carver. A brief study ...
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Louis Jobin, Statuaire (1845-1928) (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1943, Tome XXXVII [37])

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1943

Seller ID: 2276907

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased. 1943 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 17-23, [1] pp. French text. A brief study of the career of a Canadian sculptor. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples.
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Modalite Dans Nos Melodies Populaires (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1944, Tome XXXVIII [38])

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1944

Seller ID: 2276909

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased, minor loss from corners, light stain on top page margin. 1944 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 15-25, [1] pp. French text, title translates as Modality in Our Popular Melodies. A brief study of music. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples.
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L'Heritage Occulte

By: Berry, Steve

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cherche Midi: 2014

Seller ID: 2279581

ISBN: 2749140935

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

French text. An exceptional copy. 2014 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Une passionnante partie d'échecs se met alors en place. De la révélation contenue dans le journal intime d'un dignitaire mormon du début du siècle dernier à la légendaire prophétie du Cheval blanc, en passant par l'étrange découverte faite dans une grotte du parc de Zion, Cotton va devoir élucider, au péril de sa vie, bon nombre d'énigmes historiques pour, enfin, faire la lumière sur cette affaire.
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Voyage Fait par Ordre de l'Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russia Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer d'Anadyr, et sur les Cotes de l'Amerique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu'en 1794, in Two Volumes.

By: Billings, Commodore [Joseph]; Sauer, M. [Martin]; Castera, J.

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire: 1802

Seller ID: 2289768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First French translation of the work published in English the same year. Lacks the large atlas volume. Rebound with new end sheets. Bottom corner torn from last text page in first volume (no loss of text), faintly foxed throughout. 1802 Hard Cover. xxiv, 385, [1]; 418 pp. 8vo. French text. An account of Commodore Joseph Billings's expedition in search of a northeast passage on behalf of Catherine the Great (1785-1794), which resulted in significant advances in maps of Siberia, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Prince William Sound, etc.
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Image for Mort Artu: An Old French Prose Romance of the XIIIth [13th] Century, Being the Last Division of 'Lancelot du Lac,' Now First Edited from Ms. 342 (Fonds Francais) of the Bibliotheque Nationale, with Collations from Some Other Mss. [FRENCH TEXT]

Mort Artu: An Old French Prose Romance of the XIIIth [13th] Century, Being the Last Division of 'Lancelot du Lac,' Now First Edited from Ms. 342 (Fonds Francais) of the Bibliotheque Nationale, with Collations from Some Other Mss. [FRENCH TEXT]

By: Bruce, J. Douglas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: AMS Press Inc.: 1974

Seller ID: 2266474

ISBN: 0404566499

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Top corner faintly bumped. 1974 Hard Cover. xxxvii, [1], 315, [5] pp. 8vo. 1974 reissue of 1910 edition. French text.
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La Femme En Rouge et Autres Nouvelles

By: Chedid, Andree

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Paris, Flammarion: 1998

Seller ID: 2196611

ISBN: 2277237698

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

French text. Ink & pencil underlining in text. 1998 Mass Market Paperback. 125, [3] pp. A French-language collection of stories from the Parisian author.
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New Orleans Poems in Creole and French: Jules Choppin 1830-1914

By: Choppin, Jules; Shapiro, Norman R.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Second Line Press: 2013

Seller ID: 2279729

ISBN: 0988962772

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Bilingual edition. An exceptional copy. 2013 Trade Paperback. Jules Choppin, in his time, was a well known New Orleans poet who was published widely in local papers and the important Comptes rendus de l’Athénée Louisianais. Writing in both French and Creole, this bilingual edition is especially notable for the clever, good-humored fables in sprightly Louisiana Creole which this book centers on. Ably translated by renowned French and Creole translator Norman R. Shapiro, whose complete translations of La Fontaine are considered among the best.
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Le Voyage d'Italie de Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1758) (Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome 145)

By: Cochin, Charles-Nicolas; Michel, Christian

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Roma, Ecole Française de Roma: 1991

Seller ID: 2198628

ISBN: 2728302359

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1991 Large Hardcover. viii, 510 pp. 57 black-and-white plates. French text. A 1991 facsimile of the 18th century Italian travelogue, originally published in 1758. Edited by Christian Michel. Cochin was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic who worked for King Louis XV and traveled with the famous Madame de Pompadour on a study tour of Italy, and later toured the excavations of Herculaneum.
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Les Etats Hindouises D'Indochine Et D'Indonesie [The Hindu States of Indochina and Indonesia] [French Text]

By: Coedes, G.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 1964

Seller ID: 2300402

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1964 Hard Cover. 494. French text. Fold-out maps follow text. A history of the Hindu States of Indochina and Indonesia.
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Le Soldat Americain En France [The American Soldier In France] [FRENCH TEXT]

By: Coleman, Algernon; La Meslee, A. Marin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press: 1918

Seller ID: 2297563

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

FRENCH TEXT. 7th printing. No jacket. Front endpaper missing. 1918 Small Hard Cover. viii, 118 pp. French text. From the preface: This little book is the outcome of an effort to supply as quickly as possible the evident need for a reading and conversation book for soldier who will go to France [WWI}.
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La Resurrection de Sherlock Holmes [The Return of Sherlock Holmes]

By: Conan Doyle (Doyle, Arthur Conan)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: La Renaissance du Livre:

Seller ID: 2151662

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

No date, circa 1910. Wrappers & pages toned, wrappers protected by onion skin jacket. Good. 271 pp. A French translation of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]

By: Conan Doyle (Doyle, Arthur Conan); P.O.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Felix Juven:

Seller ID: 2151661

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Circa 1910. Spine creased with loss from head & foot, pages toned, binding shaken. vii, 274 pp. A French translation of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Wry-Blue Loves: Les Amours jaunes and Other Poems (French and English Edition)

By: Corbiere, Tristan; Dale, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Anvil Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2279735

ISBN: 0856463779

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Bilingual edition. An exceptional copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. The chronically invalid son of a robust sea-captain and novelist father, Tristan Corbière (1845-75) published one book of verse and was virtually unheard of in his lifetime. He is an informal formalist, delighting in clashing registers of diction and outrageous puns. With pervasive self-mocking humour, his poems combine a hopeless love, a grounded sea-fever, a ferocious ironic compassion and a savage sympathy with dogs and underdogs. As Peter Dale writes in his introduction: 'Above all, he is his own man, able to resist the blandis...
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Voyage de Deux Artistes en Italie

By: De Spinola, M.H.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Limoges, Chez Barbou, Imprimeur-Libraire: 1838

Seller ID: 2199178

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Nicely rebound in beige cloth with gilt titles and new endpapers. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1838 Hard Cover. 283 pp. 12mo. French text. Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate in text. A 19th century Italian travelogue which includes descriptions of Milan, Turin, Alexandrie, Monza, Pavie, Asti, Genes, Pise, Livourne, Sienne, Florence, Modene, Reggio, Ferrare, Mantone, Peschiera, Verone, Venise, Ancone, Laurette, Rome, and Naples.
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Histoire Universelle de Jacque-Auguste de Thou, Depuis 1543. jusqu'en 1607. Traduite sur l'Edition Latine de Londres [in Sixteen Volumes]

By: De Thou, Jacque-Auguste [Jacques]; [le Beau, Charles; Le Mascrier; Abbe Des Fontaines]

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: A Londres [Paris], S.N.: 1734

Seller ID: 2295697

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards rubbed with some loss/drying of leather, corners exposed. 1734 Full-Leather. Complete in sixteen volumes. Full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooled compartments. The life's work of the French historian and book collector who lived from the mid-16th to early 17th century. Originally published in Latin under the title Historia sui temporis, in 138 books, three years after the author's death. The work, despite controversy over some of its depictions of religious matters, quickly became regarded as a scholarly classic, characterized by exhaustive research and reference to the ...
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L'Encyclopedie De Diderot Et D'Alembert (Recueil De Planches, Sur les Sciences, Les Arts Liberaux, Et Les Arts Mechaniques, Avec Leur Explication)

By: Diderot, Denis; Veyrier, Henri

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Henri Veyrier: 1965

Seller ID: 2290882

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Single faint spine crease, wrappers lightly soiled. 1965 Large Softcover. 15 x 10. This particular volume, featuring hundreds of detailed technical drawings, deals with various forms of industry, from tanneries to textiles. It details specifics of setup, equipment, uses, etc. of looms, mills, and other industrial subjects. Includes many fold-out illustrations. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts) was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, w...
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El Baron de Courcy: Ilustraciones de un viaje, 1831-1833 [The Baron de Courcy: Illustrations of a Trip, 1831-1833] (Spanish and French Text)

By: Diener, Pablo; Manthorne, Katherine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Artes de Mexico: 1998

Seller ID: 2281518

ISBN: 9686533761

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Near fine. 1998 Large Hardcover. 93 pp. Spanish and French dual-text. En el siglo xix, un enigmatico aristocrata frances viajo de Canada al Caribe, pasando por Mexico y Estados Unidos. Los esplendidos paisajes que vio quedaron plasmados en las acuarelas y los dibujos que ilustran este libro. ENGLISH TRANSLATION: In the nineteenth century, this enigmatic French aristocrat traveled through the Americas, capturing the landscapes he observed in the drawings and watercolors that illustrate this book.
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Les Dernieres Aventures de Sherlock Holmes (Collection des Maitres de la Litterature Entrangere) [The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]

By: Doyle, A. [Arthur] Conan; Labat, Louis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Albin Michel:

Seller ID: 2151659

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine toned & lightly creased, pages toned, wrappers protected by onion skin jacket, ink stamp on front flyleaf. Good. 338 pp. A French translation of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Maniere de Fortifier Selon La Methode de Monsieur de Vauban avec un Traite preliminaire des Principes de Geometrie

By: Du Fay, L'Abbe; [Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre]

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard: 1729

Seller ID: 1659688

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

French text. Loss to spine ends, lightly foxed, a few marginal ink notations in French, owner's title label on spine. 1729 Hard Cover. [8], 198, [10] index. Nouvelle et Derniere Edition. Buff paper boards, sewn binding. A treatise on geometry followed by a distillation of Vauban's theories regarding military architecture. Vauban was the most respected mind of his time in this field, and his innovations led to significant changes in fortified structures. This work contains numerous illustrations indicating the benefits of particular geometric configurations in terms of strength and strategic va...
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Relation d'un Voyage en Italie, suivie d'Observations sur les Anciens et les Modernes

By: Dupre, Alphonse

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Anthe. Boucher, Imprim.-Librairie: 1824

Seller ID: 2199437

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Spine lightly creased with a few splits starting, corners rubbed and lightly curled, light stain to rear wrapper and last few pages. 1824 Soft Cover. viij, 545 pp. 12mo. French text. Printed wrappers. Engraved frontispiece of St. Pierre de Rome. A 19th century Italian travelogue, written in the tradition of the Grand Tour.
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King of a Hundred Horsemen: Poems (English and French Edition)

By: Etienne, Marie; Hacker, Marilyn

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux: 2009

Seller ID: 2279734

ISBN: 0374531927

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Bilingual edition. 2009 Trade Paperback. Marie Étienne's poetry is inspired by the synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundane?the quotidian transformed by the tragic prisms of myth and history. Through a profound and complex reinterpretation of the sonnet form, the book reflects, as in a mosaic of shattered mirrors, many of the writer's ongoing preoccupations: the relationship of East and West; an eroticism at once physical and cerebral; the interaction of poetry and prose; the strange blending of the everyday and the foreign, in which the most exotic journeys...
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Tablettes d'un Champenois: Tout Chemin Conduit a Rome

By: Fievet, Victor; de Martonne, Alfred

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Epernay, Veuve Fievet: 1853

Seller ID: 2198623

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rebound in quarter leather with marbled boards and new endpapers and flyleaves, with original printed wrappers bound in. Ink name and brief note on front wrapper, minor loss from wrapper corners, scattered faint foxing to text, minor wear to board corners. 1853 Hard Cover. 332 pp. A 19th century French-language guide to Rome, by a journalist and historian who also worked as a printer, and was a member of the Société des gens de lettres.
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