Search Results: France from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

Limited to 990 copies, this being #295. Vibrant blue cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine. Deckled edges. All 10 color sur blanc plates throughout, some with silver and majority in duo-tone printing. Previous owner's name (John Donald Hotchkiss) to front pastedown, otherwise no other names or markings. Bumping to head and tail of spine, and very light wear to boards (see image). 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

Cellulose inset cover medallion of Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine (after Mucha) enveloped by poppies on wood-veneered boards. Twenty-eight fin-de-siecle celebrities, each in photograph (by Nadar, Boyer, et al.) surrounded by colored art nouveau motifs (by Habert-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin) and facsimiles of autographed script. Included are Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, François Coppée, Mme Edmond Adam, Anatole France, Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès, Jules Lemaître, Mme Réjane, Jules Claretie, Mme Segond-Weber, Jean Richepin, Marthe Brandès, Coquelin aîné, Jeanne Granier, Jules Massenet, Aïno Ackté, Mounet-Sully, Jane Hading, J-L.Gérôme, Jane Hatto, Antonin Mercié, Marie Delna, Luc-Olivier Merson, Sibyl-Sanderson, F.-A. Bartholdi, Carrère-Xanrof, Alfred Capus & Ranavalo Manjaka III (the ex-queen of Madagascar). Also contains fourteen stunning hors-texte chromolithographed Leonetto Cappiello caricatures of Sarah Bernhardt, Francois Coppee, Jules Lemaitre, Madame Rejane,… Read More

Original hand colored engraving from Blaeu's Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas Contenant, Les Chartes et Descriptions de tous les Pais de la Terre Mis en lumiere published in 1635. The map measures 19.5 x 15 in (49.5 x 38 cm) with the page measuring 22 x 18.25 in (56 x 46 cm). Text to rear.

Part of the Home and Colonial Library. Quarter morocco over marbled boards.. Five raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Small loss to bottom corner of page 145/146. Heavy foxing to last page (176). [viii], 176 p. 5 x 7 1/4 inches.

Half dark brown morocco over cloth boards and 5 raised bands with gilt particulars to spine. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner has included several elegantly handwritten continuations of come chapters on separate sheets of paper and has interleaved them according to the chapter they associate with. Folding genealogical charts with hand colored key coding at front. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light sporadic foxing. Fraying of cloth on boards at top edge due to previous liquid exposure. Sunning to cloth boards. 12 3/4 x 17 inches.

Disbound copy lacking boards & blank endpapers, but with frontis and half title. A foldout plan of the Bastille is included. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
5.25 x 8.25 in

Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte. Cream linen-covered boards; morocco labels to spine. vii, 149, [1], viii plates. Eight folding maps, six of which are colored. Small loss to cartouche of plate four & Tables des Matieres (nether affecting text). Foxing & thumbing to covers; losses to fore-edge (see images). 10 x 13.9 inches

Quarter calf. 66 engraved plates (some double) with 152 pp of text interleaved. An additional four engraved plates & two maps in the Preface with Frontispiece. In all 73 engraved plates and maps. Occasional foxing. Lacks spine casing; boards detached.; Folio 10x16 in (265x410mm; [xvii],152 pages; Additional images and further information provided upon request.

Nuremberg Chronicle page featuring a half page woodcut of Paris featuring a 1400s caravel ship on the Sienne with Latin text above as well as a half page woodcut of Mainz to verso with Latin text above. Hinged on map board. Woodcut by Pleydenwurff and Wohlgemut. 12 3/4 x 18 inches (Folio leaf).

Half red calf over marbled boards with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Five (5) fold-out maps throughout, one of which has been long ago professionally reinforced with linen backing. No previous owners' names or other markings. Page 23/24 dog eared on bottom corner; closed tears and folds to pages 25-28; moisture mark to top exterior corner of first pages (not effecting legibility of text or maps); both front and back boards detached with wear to each; losses to spine (see images). 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. All shipments through insured USPS Priority Mail.

Scarce first edition of this publication. Half black morocco over marbled boards, and 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Hors texte plates with tissue guards throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Occasional foxing. Vol. 1 is organized into 3 books, and each subsequent volume with the following books: Birth, Youth and Education; The Italian Insurrection; and, Arenenberg. Vol. 2: Between Strasburg and Boulogne; Ham; The Revolution of 1848. Vol. 3: The Presidency; The Coup d'Etat; Establishment of the Empire. Vol. 4: The Crimean War; Italian Independence; Home Policy; Home Affairs; 1870. Light wear to edges of marbled boards. Please expect extra postage for foreign orders. Each: 6 x 8 3/4 inches.

Handsome, supple set in quarter morocco over marbled boards. Marbled end papers and gilt title to spine. Foxing throughout. 337 & 391 pgs; 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.

Swedish version of Diderot's Nun nicely bound in supple half calf & profusely illustrated. "Based in the Eighteenth century, Suzanne Simonin is an intelligent and sensitive sixteen-year-old French girl who is forced against her will into a Catholic convent by her parents. Suzanne's parents initially inform her that she is being sent to the convent for financial reasons, stating it is cheaper for her to become a nun rather than paying a dowry in marriage. However, while in the convent, it is revealed to Suzanne that she is actually there because she is an illegitimate child as her mother committed adultery with another man. By sending Suzanne to the convent, her mother thought she could make amends for her sins by using her daughter as a sacrificial offering for a new salvation." (Wikipedia) 5.25 x 7.5 inches. Top edge gilt.

Quarter morocco over marbled paper boards, raised bands and gilt spine with title, marbled endpapers. Wear to fore edge corners, foxing throughout. 568 pgs. ; 6 1/4 x 9 inches.