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Kunst-Anstalt Fur Moderne Plakate Wilhelm Hoffmann Dresden from "Maitres de l'Affiche", Pl. 127
by Fischer, Otto
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- 1897
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Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1897. First edition. Print. Fine. Lovely image of a couple examining an Art Nouveau print. This image speaks to the public's passion for posters at the end of the 19th century. To appeal to this passion, "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" was published by Jules Cheret. Cleverly, the reduced-size fine art poster lithographs were a more… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jeanne Darc Sarah Bernhardt, Les Maitres de l'Affiche Pl. 174
by Grasset, Eugene
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- 1899
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Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1899. First edition. Print. Fine. Joan of Arc holding a banner in a hail of arrows. Grasset worked as a book illustrator and poster designer in Paris towards the end of the 19th century. His work brought him into contact with the Montmartre circle of artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Image size varies on paper… Read more about this item Item Price
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Academie Nationale de Musique. Hellé. Musique d'Alphonse Duvernoy. Poème de C. du Loche et Ch. Nuitter. From "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" Pl. 34
by Steinlen, Theophile
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- 1896
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 137.09
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Paris: Imprimerie Chaix, 1896. First edition. Print. Very good condition. Steinlen (1859-1923) the famed Swiss born printmaker who settled and worked in Montmartre, Paris, is noted for his impressive posters of cafes and night life. He was a socialist whose images display his lifelong support and focus on the working class.
Art nouveau style poster for this… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Secret Memoirs of the Duc de Roquelaure Written by Himself Now for the First Time Completely Translated into English in Four Volumes
by de Roquelaure, Gaston Jean Baptiste [1617-1683]
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- Limited edition
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- 1896
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- Hardcover
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SGD 377.00
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N.P.: Privately Printed, 1896. Limited edition. Hardcover. The autobiographical memoir of Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure, a courtier, soldier, gambler who shared details of Court life during Louis XIV's reign.
4 vols, 8vo, vellum, gilt titles and decoration on spine. Vellum dusty, spine tips bumped, otherwise clean throughout. 'This Edition is strictly limited to 1000 number Copies, 500… Read more about this item Item Price
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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
by McCrae, John (Lieut.-Col., MD)
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- 1919
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SGD 308.45
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Hardcover. Very good condition. Poetry from W.W.I. Flanders Fields is a common English name of W.W.I battle fields in Belgium and France. With a character essay of McCrae by Sir Andrew Macphail. The well known poem 'In Flanders Fields' by McCrae published in facsimile on p15.
Presentation copy given to W. Hastings… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sinaï. Impressions de Voyages
by Dumas, Alexandre et A. Dauzats
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- First American edition
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- 1839
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SGD 205.64
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New York: Foreign & Classical Bookstore, 1839. First American edition. Paper wrappers. Good + overall. The first American edition, with the title page dated 1838, but the cover wrapper dated Fevrier 1839. This is possibly published before the first French & Belgian editions (Paris 1839 by Dumont and Bruxelles 1839 by Meline) which were published under the title...… Read more about this item Item Price
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The French Industrial Exhibition of Beijing 1965, Album of Photos, menus etc.
by [China; France]
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- 1965
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SGD 548.36
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Beijing, 1965. Hardcover. Very good condition. A keepsake album of the French Industrial Exhibition which opened in Beijing on Friday 19, November 1965, which was a gathering of French-Chinese industrial and trade partners. Inside are invitations written in French and Chinese, typewritten seating chart, photographs of Chinese architecture and sculpture, postcards - some with pencil notations "Isphahan-Khazoo Bridge",… Read more about this item Item Price
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W.W.I French/US Propaganda photos, 16 studio photographs
by [WWI; Military Propaganda]
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- 1917
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 130.24
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1917. Very good condition. 16 b&w studio photographs with captions showing wins and enemy deaths.
Captions include:
At practice with R.C. dogs in the trenches near Luippes (Marne)
French Artillery observation post near Vendresse (Aisne)
Rheims Cathedral in background
On Board USS Rumpler Ready for Subs
Marshall Foch & General Pershing at Chaumont-American GHQ
American artillery near… Read more about this item Item Price
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Les Echos des Industries d'Art. 13 issues
by Le Blanc-Barbedienne (ed)
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- First printing
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- 1925
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 1,165.26
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Paris, 1925. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Les Echos des Industries d'Art was a French Serial Publication/Periodical, that ran from 1925 to 931. Offered here is 13 issues bound together starting with vol 1 number 1 April 1925 to number 16 November 1926. The run lacks only issues # 3, 14, 15.
Folio, 282pp,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jeu de Pyramides
by [Childrens board game; Clowns]
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- 1870
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- Board game
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 308.45
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France, 1870. Board game. Fine. A French childrens' board game, complete with the folding board, 10 number disks, 6 wooden pieces, the instruction sheet and box. The box is papered in apricot & gold spotted paper with an image on the cover of clowns ascending a pyramide, and one tumbling down. The box measures 11 x 8". All… Read more about this item Item Price
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The French Antarctic Expedition. RGS monthly issue
by Charcot, J.
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- 1905
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 267.33
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London: Royal Geographical Society, 1905. Hardcover. Full half year volume of the RGS journal with much Polar content. Pp 497-519, 6 ills and map (+) Bernacchi, L. Preliminary Report on the Physical Observations conducted on the National Antarctic Expedition, from 1902 to 1904, pp 642-661 (+) Nansen, F. Oscillations of Shorelines w/ sketch map, pp 604-616. Color and b&w… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 267.33
La Peche et Les Poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire General Des Peches publie sous les auspices de LL. EE. MM. le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, le Ministre du Commerce et de l'Agriculture et le Ministre de l'Instruction publique
by de la Blanchere, H.
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- 1868
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Paris: Librairie de Ch. Delagrave et C., 1868. Hardcover. Good + overall. A reference dictionary about conservation of fish and fishery practices. The forward explains how the French are behind their northern neighbor nations in fishing practices. Current methods (of 1868) of coastal fishing are negligent and antiquated. "Progress is needed in the methods of line and net… Read more about this item Item Price
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Plaine de West Point au moment de l'exercice
by Milbert, Jacques [West Point]
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- 1830
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SGD 1,028.18
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Paris & London: Ardit & Coindet, 1830. A handsome color lithograph of West Point with soldiers at drill, looking north over the plain, from Jacques Milbert's superlative collection of views entitled "Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des Parties Laterales de l'Amerique du Nord...". Milbert, who trained as an engineer, came to the United States in 1815 and stayed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Carte contenant les routes et les reconnaissances des corvettes L'Astrolabe et la Zelee dans les regions Australes levee et dressee par M. Vincendon Dumoulin Ingenieur hydrographe de la marine a bord de la corvette L'Astrolabe, janvier, fevrier et mars 1838
by D'Urville, Dumont. Dumoulin, M. Vincendon
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- 1838
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SGD 514.09
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Paris: Gide, 1838. First edition. A map from Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage au Pole Sud...". This map charts the South Shetlands and South Orkneys, with the tracks of the the Astrolabe, Weddel & Bransfield. The ice banks & mountains are shown in relief by hachures and bathymetric soundings. Track of Weddell and Bransfield shown as well as Dumont d'Urvilles. With… Read more about this item Item Price
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With Pen and Camera in Three Continents
by Makin, Charles J.S. and J.R. Skelton (ills)
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- First edition
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- 1913
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London: Tribune Publishing Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. A narrative of a trip through the St. Malo, Dinan, Brittany, Innsbruck, Montenegro, Egypt, Tunis, Turkey, Algeria with many photographic illustrations, and watercolors by Skelton.
4to, 312pp, photograph illustrations throughout, teg. Publishers red cloth, gilt title on spine and front. Covers dusty, spine frayed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Carte des Iles Hawaii 1834 from "Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde"
by Dumont-D'Urville, J.
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- 1834
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SGD 479.82
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Paris, 1834. Very good condition. Hawaiian Islands 1834 from the Voyages of Dumont D'Urville. Depicts Nihau, Tauai, Oahou, Morokai, Ranai, Mawi, Tahou Rawe and Hawaii. Inset of the Ile de Oahou. Engraved by Ambroise Tardieu.
Dumont d'Urville circumnavigated the globe for the second time between 1826 and 1829. On this expedition his accomplishments included significant Pacific… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bernard Boutet de Monvel
by Addade, Stéphane-Jacques
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- First edition
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- 2001
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SGD 171.36
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Paris: Les Editions de l'Amateur, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Monograph on the the work of the noted French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. With preface by Pierre Rosenberg. 4to 318pp, illustrated through out. Publishers grey cloth, black title. Item Price
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Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleonic War - 27 newspaper account (24 American and 3 British), 1798 to 1857
by [Napoleon]
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- 1857
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SGD 1,302.36
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American & British, 1857. Very good condition. An archive of Napoleonic war accounts in mostly American newspapers, reporting important world events from 1798 through to 1857. These vivid contemporary accounts span the entire period of the Napoleonic era.
Starting with the 1798 article in a Connecticut newspaper, there is a description of Napoleon's campaign (the Egyptian… Read more about this item Item Price
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Prix Courant - Trading slips and Commodity price lists for goods traded between France and the Middle East, with merchandise from Europe, Latin & South America, India, Batavia, Turkey, Egypt, North Africa, Russia and the Carolinas
by [International Trade in the 18th century]
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- 1821
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SGD 1,713.62
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1821. A group of 37 documents principally recording international trade between the Middle East and France, from 1730 to 1821. The largest group (13) is between Smyrna and France; another 7 between the Middle East (Cairo, Salonica, Acre, Seyde, Levant, Aleppo) and France, dating 1736-1787. Most are preprinted forms, all with manuscript notations of prices and dated. Most have… Read more about this item Item Price
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Consequences of a successfull [sic] French invasion. No. 1, plate 1st, We come to recover your long lost liberties; scene, the House of Commons, BOTANY BAY Reference
by [New South Wales] Gillray, Js.; Sir John Dalrymple
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- 1850
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London: Js. Gillray, 27, St. James's Street, 1850. Good + condition. The scene takes place in the House of Commons - To the left are shackled convicts; to the right the French are depicted as pirates. The Head of the House is being shackled and gagged by other pirates - his rather grand throne is inscribed "This House… Read more about this item Item Price
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