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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Phileas Frog Paris Musees: 2003
Seller ID: 2202734
ISBN: 2879008085
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Stinehour Press:
Seller ID: 2267200
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $150.00
Publisher: L'Illustration: 1923
Seller ID: 2271259
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. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Appleton-Century: 1946
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2260639
Condition: Very Good
Reprint. Quarter-size surface tear to jacket front, jacket edges rubbed, jacket lightly foxed (more so on reverse), front jacket flap price clipped, page ridges lightly foxed. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 310 pp. It is laid in the period of the French and Indian War, just after the colonists' first big victory at Lake George, and it pictures their subsequent struggles with Montcalm. The book ends with the massacre of Fort William Henry. Robert Lennox, a young American fighter, and his two friends--Tayoga, and Onondaga Indian, and David Willett, a hunter--fall ... View more info
By: Arnault, M.A.; Panckoucke, C.L.F.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Porter & Coates: 1890
Seller ID: 2287014
Condition: Very Good
No jacket. No publisher date (circa late 1800s), hinges starting. 1890 Hard Cover. 247; 251 pp. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, Bonaparte rose to prominence under the First French Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; ... View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283149
ISBN: 0810959003
Condition: Fine
First edition. A fine copy. 2005 Large Hardcover. 274 pp. A photographic and scientific tour of the cave of Lascaux, a treasure trove of ancient wall paintings that was discovered by chance in 1940, discusses what the cave reveals about the Old Stone Age and its animal world of some 18,000 years ago. View more info
By: Bazin, Germain
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York Graphic Society: 1956
Seller ID: 2199985
Condition: Good
No jacket, boards toned, pages toned. 1956 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 21 pp. Colored plates follow text. 54 illustrations with 46 in color. A look at Italian paintings found in the Louvre's collection.Keywords: LOUVRE FRANCE ITALIAN PAINTING ART ARTISTS View more info
By: Benoist-Mechin, Jacques; Falls, Cyril
Price: $8.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2205759
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Owner's stamp to front endpaper, page ridges lightly foxed, faint smudge to bottom page ridge.Jacket rubbed, two quarter-inch tears to jacket spine-head, front jacket flap price-clipped, jacket toned. 1963 Hard Cover. 559 pp. ...the first definitive history of the fall of France in the late spring and early summer of 1940. Written with clarity, scope and a rigorous attention to detail by an experienced military historian, it ranks as the classic account of that devastating campaign: covering in detail all military and political developments of each of its sixty days, from May 9t... View more info
By: Bernier, Olivier
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fromm International: 1986
Seller ID: 2285683
ISBN: 0880640642
Condition: Near Fine
Spine base lightly rubbed, very faint pink stain on top page ridge. 1986 Trade Paperback. 326 pp. This fascinating and poignant collection of letters between Marie Antoinette, the doomed dauphine and future Queen of France, and her mother, Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, provide a revealing portrait of the legendary queen's tragic life and the age in which she lived. Beginning in 1770 when the young princess departed for France and ending with Maria Theresa's death in 1780, these intimate letters reveal the hostility the young dauphine encountered at Ver... View more info
By: Bertin, Georges; Ward, Arabella
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Godfrey A. S. Wieners: 1901
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2289824
Condition: Good
First American edition. Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. 1901 Hard Cover. xx, 337 pp. Princess Marie-Louise Thérèse 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-Penthièvre, 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. View more info
By: Bertrand, Louis
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Louis Carrier and Co.: 1929
Seller ID: 2186962
Condition: Good
Former library copy, usual marks. Front and rear endpapers water-stained. 1929 Hard Cover. 189 pp. Translated by Paul Morin. Biography of the Sun-King of France and his royal love affairs. View more info
By: Bohanan, Donna
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Palgrave: 2001
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2269915
ISBN: 0333609727
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 Dauphiné, Bohanan illustrates the ways in which elites organized and mobilized by vertical ties were co-opted or subverted by the crown. View more info
By: Bonapart, Napoleon; de Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet; Phipps, R.W.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1889
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2265359
Condition: Near Fine
Ink name on front endpaper, boards lightly rubbed. 1889 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. xl, [2], 401, [3]; xiv, 408, [2]; xiii, [1], 397, [3]; viii, 434, [4] pp. The memoirs of French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Includes prefaces to the 1836 and 1885 editions. View more info
By: Bonaparte, Napoleon; de Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet; Phipps, R.W.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1889
Seller ID: 2283702
Condition: Good
Bindings shaken with some repairs, ink gift note on front endpaper of each volume. 1889 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. xl, [2], 401, [3]; xiv, 408, [2]; xiii, [1], 397, [3]; viii, 434, [4] pp. The memoirs of French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Includes prefaces to the 1836 and 1885 editions. View more info
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By: Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette; Mm. Barriere & Maigne
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Scribner and Welford: 1883
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2283887
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 Dauphi... View more info
By: Carlyle, Thomas
Price: $30.00
Publisher: White, Stokes and Allen / Bernhard Tauchnitz: 1888
Seller ID: 2269852
Condition: Very Good
No copyright date, circa 1890. Two volumes repaired at hinges, spines toned, two faint spots on rear board of third volume. 1888 Half-Leather. 366; 388; 430 pp. 16mo. Leather spine & corners, red & brown morocco spine labels, gilt titles & rules, top edge gilt, marbled boards & endpapers. The most famous work by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, drawing together numerous sources to provide a detailed picture of the French Revolution. Still considered an authoritative work. View more info
By: Carlyle, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: A.L. Burt: 1900
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2271323
Condition: Good
No date, circa 1900. Hinges just beginning to loosen, boards lightly rubbed. We have more books available by this author!. 430, [12]; v, [1], 421, [3] pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles. The most famous work by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, drawing together numerous sources to provide a detailed picture of the French Revolution. Still considered an authoritative work. View more info
By: Castelot, Andre
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285510
ISBN: 0060106786
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor tears, front jacket flap creased, jacket faintly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. vii, 627 pp. André Castelot was a French writer born in Belgium who wrote 65 biographies of famous persons in the History of France. He is perhaps best known for his biography of Josephine. His biography of Napoleon emphasizes not only his military campaigns, but his many love affairs and his many mistresses. It shows how his tumultuous relationship with Josephine influenced and affected his Napoleonic Code. It was because of Josephine's fickleness and unfaithfulness to... View more info
By: Cecil, E.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company: 1929
Seller ID: 2208484
Condition: Very Good
Pages lightly toned.Multiple chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket front lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. This book tells the fascinating life of the adventurous Marquis de Lafayette. It relates his exciting career as a volunteer during the days of the American Revolution and his stirring experiences during the early days of the French Revolution. His intimate association with the thrilling events in France during the days of Napoleon Bonaparte is also told. Illustrated in black and white with drawings that convey the spirit of the times.K... View more info
By: Chauvet, Jean-Marie; Deschamps, Eliette Brunel; Hillaire, Christian; Clottes, Jean
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams. Inc.: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283134
ISBN: 0810932326
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Front jacket flap creased. 1996 Large Hardcover. 135 pp. Translated from La Grotle Chaevet. An intriguing study of the early evolution of human artistic endeavors focuses on recent discoveries in the Chauvet cave, Stone Age paintings and engravings of animals that are more than thirty thousand years old. View more info
By: Childe-Pemberton, William S.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Elibron Classics / Adamant Media Corporation: 2005
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2283704
ISBN: 1402173695
Condition: Near Fine
2005 facsimile of the 1900 original. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [3], 296 pp. A biography of the Baroness de Bode, who fled France during the French Revolution, took refuge in Germany, and was later granted an estate in southern Russia by Empress Catherine II. Drawn from letters written to her family in England. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2286978
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket. Stain on spine. 1930 Hard Cover. 432 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Georges Eugène Benjamin Clemenceau[1] (French pronunciation: ?[???? b???am?? klem??so];[2] 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France during the First World War. A leading independent Radical, he played a central role in the politics of the French Third Republic. Clemenceau was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and from 1917 to 1920. Demanding a total victory over Germany, he wanted reparations, colonies, Alsace-Lorraine, and strict rules to preve... View more info
By: Cole, Juan
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271315
ISBN: 1403964319
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Minor ink marks on 15 pages only. 2007 Hard Cover. 279 pp. In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military cha... View more info
By: Comtesse du Barry [Jeanne Vaubernier]; Delahanty, George Kendal
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Rugby Press: 1903
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2015728
Condition: Very Good
Spine & edges toned, front hinge of vol. 1 starting, ink name & address on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. xii, 228; iv, 229-454 pp. 8vo. Original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles, coat of arms on front boards. An autobiography by Jeanne Vaubernier, the Comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV. A necklace Louis had made for her played a significant role in the French Revolution, of which she became a victim. View more info
By: Cook, Theodore Andrea; Ward, W.H.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Offices of 'Country Life' / George Newnes, Ltd.: 1916
Seller ID: 2271258
Condition: Good
Tipped in photographic frontispiece loose but included. Edges faded, boards rubbed with several splits to spine cloth, with some old tape repairs to the head and foot by a previous owner, endpapers lightly foxed. Binding holding strongly, interior pages clean and unmarked. 1916 Large Hardcover. xl, 436 pp. Folio. A survey of twenty-five magnificent French chateaux, featuring a map showing their locations, reproductions of architectural drawings, and photographs showing how they appeared at the time of publication. View more info
By: Cronin, Vincent
Price: $40.00
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc.: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269867
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Sticker remnant on front endpaper, jacket lightly toned. 1972 Hard Cover. 480, [6] pp. 8vo. A biography of the French general and statesman incorporating newly discovered (at the time) primary sources, with 23 pages of illustrations. View more info
By: Crozier, Brian
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1815034
Condition: Very Good
Includes original jacket. First edition. Two tiny tears at head of jacket spine, jacket reverse gently toned.Very Good. 1973 Hard Cover. ix, 726 pp. A biography which discusses DeGaulle's dealings with Churchill & Roosevelt, as well as his attitude toward Communism. Crozier records the events of the period and sheds light upon DeGaulle's successes and failures. View more info
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By: Crozier, Brian; Nixon, Richard
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1990
Seller ID: 2274207
Condition: Near Fine
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1990 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 726 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of De Gaulle. A biography which discusses De Gaulle's dealings with Churchill & Roosevelt, as well as his attitude toward Communism. Crozier records the events of the period and sheds light upon De Gaulle's successes and failures. View more info
By: D'Epinay, Madame [Louise Florence Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles]; Freese, J.H.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: H.S. Nichols Ltd.: 1899
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2289600
Condition: Very Good
First edition, one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled, bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii, 337, [3]; vii, [1], 348; viii, 356 pp. 8vo. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as ... View more info
By: Darnton, Robert
Price: $22.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1996
Seller ID: 2206879
Condition: Near Fine
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner sticker to front wrapper, spine-head lightly bumped. 1996 Soft Cover. xxiii, 440 pp. Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancient régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more than two centu... View more info
