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Objectif Paris: Images de la Ville a Travers Cinq Collections Photographiques Parisiennes

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Paris, 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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Guide Book to Fort Ticonderoga: Held In Turn by France, Great Britain and the United States

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vermont, The Stinehour Press:

Seller ID: 2267200

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date. Unpaginated. Topics include the fort at Ticonderoga, the stone fortress, the south wall, the French village, the interior of the fort, the west barracks, the bastions, the view from the ramparts, the canon, the museum collection, the restoration of the fort. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
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Image for L'Album de la Guerre: Histoire Photographique et Documentaire Reconstitutee Chronologiquement a l'Aide de Cliches et de Dessins Publies par l'Illustration de 1914 a 1921. Edition augmentee de Documents Inedits et comprenant de Nombreuses Reproductions en Couleurs, ainsi qu'un Texte Sommaire constitutant un veritable Precis d'Histoire - Tome Premier et Second

L'Album de la Guerre: Histoire Photographique et Documentaire Reconstitutee Chronologiquement a l'Aide de Cliches et de Dessins Publies par l'Illustration de 1914 a 1921. Edition augmentee de Documents Inedits et comprenant de Nombreuses Reproductions en Couleurs, ainsi qu'un Texte Sommaire constitutant un veritable Precis d'Histoire - Tome Premier et Second

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, L'Illustration: 1923

Seller ID: 2271259

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Spines dried and faded with all gilt lost, boards rubbed, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1923 Full-Leather. [iv], 1311, [3] pp. Full leather, gilt titles and rules, Six photographic portraits precede text, fold-out map follows text. French text. A stunning visual history of World War I, illustrated with tipped in color illustrations, color plates, and black-and-white photographs.
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The Wars of Napoleon (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Department of History: 1979

Seller ID: 2303271

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Rebound as hardcover with original wrappers bound in. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, top page ridge and endpapers lightly foxed. 1979 Large Hardcover. xvii, 285 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Illustrations; Book One: The Conquest of Europe - Part I: The Growth of Bonaparte - Italian and Egyptian Campaigns - The Empire and the Grande Armee; Part II: Expansion of the Empire - Ulm and Austerlitz Campaigns - Jena and Friedland Campaigns; Book Two: The Resurgence of Europe - Part III. Defense of the Empire - Defensive on the Danube and in Spain - Offensive into Russia; Part I...
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Image for Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages

Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages

By: Abbott, John S. C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Mason Brothers: 1856

Seller ID: 2301435

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former a binder's copy - has been repaired. Loss to spine head, spine base and to front joint; ink name on title page. 1856 Hard Cover. 404 pp. With numerous illustrative notes and anecdotes. Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages.
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Image for The Trial of John Peltier, Esq. for a Libel against Napoleon Buonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, at the Court of King's-Bench, Middlesex, on Monday the 21st of February, 1803.

The Trial of John Peltier, Esq. for a Libel against Napoleon Buonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, at the Court of King's-Bench, Middlesex, on Monday the 21st of February, 1803.

By: Adams, James; Mackintosh, James

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis... for M. Peltier: 1803

Seller ID: 2305162

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

French and English text. Hinges weakening with first gathering loosening, boards lightly soiled and discolored. 1803 Hard Cover. xxxii, 312, clii pp. 4to. Blind-stamped brown cloth with cloth title label affixed (the label is likely newer, as it does not match the style of the rest). An account of the trial of John Peltier, who published a journal called L'Ambigu after fleeing France for England in the late 18th century. He was charged with libel, specifically for his criticisms of Napoleon, and was found guilty despite a spirited effort by Sir James Mackintosh in his defense ('His greatest p...
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Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture

By: Andrew, Dudley; Ungar, Steven

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2307703

ISBN: 067401703X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2005 Hard Cover. ix, 449 pp. The story of Paris in the 1930s seems straightforward enough, with the Popular Front movement leading toward the inspiring 1936 election of a leftist coalition government. The socialist victory, which resulted in fundamental improvements in the lives of workers, was then derailed in a precipitous descent that culminated in France's capitulation before the Nazis in June 1940. Yet no matter how minutely recounted, this straight story clarifies only the political activity behind which turbulent cultural currents b...
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French Organ Music from the Revolution to Franck and Widor

By: Archbold, Lawrence; Peterson, William J.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, University of Rochester Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2294808

ISBN: 1580460712

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear. 1999 Trade Paperback. xiii, 323 pp. Nineteenth-century French organ music attracts an ever-increasing number of performers and devotees. The music of Cesar Franck and other distinguished composers-Boly, Guilmant, Widor-and the impact upon this repertoire of the organ-building achievements of Aristide Cavaill-Coll, are here explored through stylistic analysis, the study of the compositional process, and the exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance practice traditions developed and became codified. New consideration is also given to the political an...
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Napoleon and His Women Friends

By: Aretz, Gertrude; Paul, Eden and Cedar

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2301230

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. 375 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine and on front board. With sixteen illustrations. Woman, wrote the young Napoleon in 1791, is indispensable to man's animal organization. The sweetness of this union beautifies the dreams and mitigates the sorrows of life; it diversifies life's joys; and it fertilizes the broad field of the sensations. Napoleon had many love affairs, but there was only one woman - the incomparable Josphine - for whom such romantic notions could be said to have held any truth. I have married...
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Notes on Railroads and Mechanical and Wagon Transport in Connection with the Service of Supply on the Western Front in France

By: Army War College

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1917

Seller ID: 2299147

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Wrappers stained, small chip along bottom edge, pencil note on front wrapper. 1917 Stapled Binding. 21 pp. Notes on Railroads and Mechanical and Wagon Transport in Connection with the Service of Supply on the Western Front in France.
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Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes

By: Aronson, Theo

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Indianapolis / New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1972

Seller ID: 2296700

ISBN: 0672513757

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Spine very slightly cocked, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. ix, 260 pp. What do you say to the wonderful proceedings in Paris, which really seem like a story in a book or a play? wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians, in December 1851. Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, had made himself dictator of France, stealing the limelight of the European stage to open the first act of a play that would last for more than thirty yearsand in which Queen Victoria was herself to play a major ...
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English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I.

By: Ashton, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1888

Seller ID: 2301431

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on half-title page. 1888 Hard Cover. xvi, 454, 32 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine, gilt decor on spine and on front board. With 15 illustrations by the author. This book is not intended to be a History of Napoleon the First, but simply to reproduce the bulk of the Caricatures and Satires published in England on our great enemy, with as much of history as may help to elucidate them. The majority of the caricatures are humorous; others are silly, or spitefulas will occasionally happen nowadays; and some are too coarse for reprod...
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The King of Rome Napoleon II L'Aiglon

By: Aubry, Octave; Abbott, Elisabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1932

Seller ID: 2301225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lighlty toned, top edge of front board lightly bumped. 1932 Hard Cover. 272 pp. Green boards. Gilt title and decoration on front board. 16 aquatone illustrations. Napolon Franois Joseph Charles Bonaparte (20 March 1811 22 July 1832), Prince Imperial, King of Rome, known in the Austrian court as Franz from 1814 onward, Duke of Reichstadt from 1818, was the son of Napoleon, Emperor of the French, and his second wife, Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. At the time of his birth, by Title III, article 9 of the French Constitution, he was Prince Imperial, but he wa...
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1812: The Great Retreat, Told by the Survivors

By: Austin, Paul Britten

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Greenhill Book: 1996

Seller ID: 2305545

ISBN: 1853672467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine head lightly bumped. Smudge on page ridge. 1996 Hard Cover. 464 pp. 1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting out on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River. Using ...
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Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire Excluding Paris and Its Environs

By: Baedeker, Karl

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Karl Baedeker: 1909

Seller ID: 2299193

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fifth edition. Fold-out maps in text. Coloring marks on some pages, light stain. 1909 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxvi, 454 pp. Page ridges marbled. Handbook for travellers. With 16 maps and 55 plans. Fold-out maps in text. CONTENTS: Introduction; Northern France: North-Eastern France; Normandy; Brittany and the Banks of the Loire; District between Paris, the Vosges, the Jura and the Loire; Maps; Plans of Towns.
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail

By: Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard; Lincoln, Henry

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Dell: 1983

Seller ID: 2266946

ISBN: 0440136482

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Faint edge wear. 1983 Mass Market Paperback. 489 pages. Black & white photographs. Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail? According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously rese...
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Napoleon, an Outline

By: Ballard, Colin R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1924

Seller ID: 2301238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Page ridges faintly foxed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, front hinge starting. 1924 Hard Cover. 325 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine. A biography of Napoleon.
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Louvre: Masterpieces of Italian Painting

By: Bazin, Germain

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society: 1956

Seller ID: 2199985

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

No jacket, boards toned, pages toned. 1956 Large Hardcover. 21 pp. Colored plates follow text. 54 illustrations with 46 in color. A look at Italian paintings found in the Louvre's collection.
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Madame de Lamballe

By: Bertin, Georges; Ward, Arabella

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Godfrey A. S. Wieners: 1901

Seller ID: 2289824

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First American edition. Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. 1901 Hard Cover. xx, 337 pp. Princess Marie-Louise Thrse of Savoy-Carignan (8 September 1749 3 September 1792) was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy. She was married at the age of 17 to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon-Penthivre, Prince de Lamballe, the heir to the greatest fortune in France. After her marriage, which lasted a year, she went to court and became the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She was killed in the massacres of September 1792 during the French Revolution.
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France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-1868: An International Episode

By: Bigelow, John

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1888

Seller ID: 2305601

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, ink bookseller stamp on front endpaper. 1888 Hard Cover. x, 247, 4 pp. 8vo. An account of the plot to construct several vessels for the Confederate Navy in French dockyards, for which the Confederacy made promises more generous than it could deliver.
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Louis XIV

By: Bluche, Francois; Greengrass, Mark - translator

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Franklin Watts: 1990

Seller ID: 2296801

ISBN: 0531151123

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1990 Hard Cover. xvi, 702 pp. Louis XIV (5 September 1638 1 September 1715), known as the Sun King was King of France and of Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, and is the longest documented reign of any European monarch. Louis began personally governing France in 1661 after the death of his prime minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the theory of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin and lack of temporal restraint of monarchical rule, Louis cont...
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Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France (European History in Perspective)

By: Bohanan, Donna

Price: $20.00

Publisher: England, Palgrave: 2001

Seller ID: 2269915

ISBN: 0333609727

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Pencil underlining. 2001 Trade Paperback. x, 194 pp. This book analyzes the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absolutist state in France have challenged the orthodox vision of the interaction between the crown and elite society. Using the three examples of Provence, Brittany, and Dauphin, Bohanan illustrates the ways in which elites organized and mobilized by vertical ties were co-opted or subverted by the crown.
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America

By: Borneman, Walter R.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial: 2007

Seller ID: 2305488

ISBN: 0060761857

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First printing. A fine copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. xxiii, 360 pp. In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would decide the fate of the entire North American continentnot just between Great Britain and France, but for the Spanish and Native Americans as well. Fought across virgin wilderness, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, the French and Indian War is best remembered for dogged frontier c...
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Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France

By: Bouchard, Constance Brittain

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Cornell University: 1998

Seller ID: 2302862

ISBN: 0801485487

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third printing. Sticker on rear wrapper, some pencil marginalia. 1998 Trade Paperback. xii, 198 pp. Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval l...
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Napoleon's Grande Armee of 1813 (Armies of the Napoleonic Wars Research Series)

By: Bowden, Scott

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, The Emperor's Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2303450

ISBN: 0962665517

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. An excellent copy. 1990 Hard Cover. 374 pp. Armies of the Napoleonic Wars Research Series is a factual in-depth study of the armies, battles, and leaders of the Age of Napoleon. The principal purpose of the volume is to bring together the most information practical on the raising and formation of Napoleon's war machine, its level of training, combat effectiveness and the opinions of strengths and weaknesses made by the people closest to the army - the officers and ministers themselves. This volume includes extensive, detailed parade states of the army throughout 1813 and is purpose...
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Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution

By: Bowers, Claude G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2294644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, minor surface tears to jacket spine which do not obscure text, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor ink marginalia, ink notes on rear free endpaper,. 1950 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 535 pp. Rescued from obscurity in this the first English biography, Pierre Vergniaud, genius and orator, whose eloquence held the violence of the French Revolution in check from 1791-93, is here given his due. On the one hand he fought the excesses and inequities of th...
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The Atlantic Wall in France, 1940-1945

By: Braeuer, Luc

Price: $20.00

Publisher: France, Editions Le Grand Blockhaus: 2010

Seller ID: 2295102

ISBN: 295338412X

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Top corner of rear wrapper creased. 2010 Large Softcover. 80 pp. In the spring of 1940, the German army began its offensive against northern and western Europe. In less than three months, it would conquer the entire European littoral from North Cape in Norway to the Spanish frontier. After the entry into the war of the United States in December 1941, the German high command sought to prevent at all costs the opening of a second front in the west. It decided to construct a wall of concrete and steel along more than 600 kilometres of coastline to render all landings impossible. How and by whom w...
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Gide

By: Bree, Germaine

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2276940

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket, small tear to inner front board, minimal pencil underlining. 1963 Hard Cover. An engaging literary criticism of the controversial French novelist and thinker.
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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

By: Brubaker, Rogers

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2294836

ISBN: 0674131789

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. A very nice copy. 1994 Trade Paperback. xii, 270 pp. The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive?and, for immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Brubaker shows how this difference?between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and German emphasis on blood descent?was shaped by sharply differing understandings of nationhood.
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Image for The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Navarre to Which are Added Personal Recollections Illustrative of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI [with] Autobiographical Memoirs of Madame Campan, First Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, with Some Records of Her Life and Conversations, in Two Volumes

The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Navarre to Which are Added Personal Recollections Illustrative of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI [with] Autobiographical Memoirs of Madame Campan, First Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, with Some Records of Her Life and Conversations, in Two Volumes

By: Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette; Mm. Barriere & Maigne

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner and Welford: 1883

Seller ID: 2283887

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

New and revised edition. Edges lightly rubbed, bookplates on front endpaper of each indicating these belonged to someone named Salisbury. 1883 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. lxxvi, [2], 397, [1]; ix, [3], 398 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt titles and black and gold decorations.. Marie Antoinette; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine ...
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