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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
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Department of History: 1979
Seller ID: 2303271
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... View more info
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Mason Brothers: 1856
Seller ID: 2301435
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. View more info
Price: $30.00 $24.00
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. 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 in with Achille Gary, a crafty Frenchman, whom... View more info
By: Archbold, Lawrence; Peterson, William J.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: University of Rochester Press: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2294808
ISBN: 1580460712
Condition: Near Fine
Very minor general wear. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 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-Boëly, Guilmant, Widor-and the impact upon this repertoire of the organ-building achievements of Aristide Cavaillé-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. N... View more info
By: Aretz, Gertrude; Paul, Eden and Cedar
Price: $10.00
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2301230
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 Joséphine - for whom such romantic notions could be said to have held any truth. I have ma... View more info
By: Army War College
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1917
Seller ID: 2299147
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. 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
By: Aronson, Theo
Price: $8.00
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2296700
ISBN: 0672513757
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 years—and in which Queen Victoria was herself to play a maj... View more info
By: Ashton, John
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1888
Seller ID: 2301431
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 spiteful—as will occasionally happen nowadays; and some are too coarse for rep... View more info
By: Aubry, Octave; Abbott, Elisabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2301225
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. Napoléon François 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, bu... View more info
By: Baedeker, Karl
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Karl Baedeker: 1909
Edition: Fifth Edition
Seller ID: 2299193
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. View more info
By: Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard; Lincoln, Henry
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Dell: 1983
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2266946
ISBN: 0440136482
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... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Company: 1924
Seller ID: 2301238
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. 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. 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: Beard, James A.; Watt, Alexander
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1952
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2294823
Condition: Very Good
Second printing. One inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, half inch chip along jacket spine base, two half inch tears along top edge of rear jacket one previously mended with tape. 1952 Hard Cover. xv, 272 pp. Drawings by Vladimir Bobri. A book of unique recipes from chefs in Paris restaurants. View more info
By: Bernier, Olivier
Price: $15.00 $12.00
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: Bluche, Francois; Greengrass, Mark - translator
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Franklin Watts: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2296801
ISBN: 0531151123
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 c... 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: Bonaparte, 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
Revised edition. 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
By: Bouchard, Constance Brittain
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Cornell University: 1998
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2302862
ISBN: 0801485487
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... View more info
By: Bowden, Scott
Price: $22.00
Publisher: The Emperor's Press: 1990
Seller ID: 2303450
ISBN: 0962665517
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... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2294644
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. 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 the regime, on the other the terrorism of the Re... View more info
By: Braeuer, Luc
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Editions Le Grand Blockhaus: 2010
Seller ID: 2295102
ISBN: 295338412X
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... View more info
By: Brubaker, Rogers
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1994
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2294836
ISBN: 0674131789
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. View more info
![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](/assets/images/product/2283887.jpg)
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
