History: France from The Owl at the Bridge

Critical bibliography of the history of Paris (France); in French. Contents include Histoire géographique; Histoire topographique; Histoire administrative; Statistique; Travaux publics; Commerce et industrie; Finances; Assistance; Lettres et sciences; Beaux-arts; Spectacles et divertissements; Justice et police; Cultes; Usages et moeurs; Index des noms d'auteurs et des ouvrages anonymes. "Originally Published Paris: 1908." vi, 153 pages; 24 cm. Bound in maroon… Ler mais sobre este item

VOLUME TWO ONLY. Of the tombs of Thebes which the writer was able to examine, he writes (p. 177), "I observed every thing I met with, and put into my pockets all the portable fragments I found: among the latter was a charming little patera, of baked earth, a morsel worthy of the best age of the arts... figures of… Ler mais sobre este item

Bookseller catalogue listing items on the French Revolution and Buonaparte. 615 items, illus.; stapled in pictorial wraps; Good. Stock#ofc0268.

Reproduced from typescript; vii, 166 pages; 24 cm. White covers; VG. Stock#ofc0116.

"The period from 1547 to 1648 was one of the most exciting and eventful hundred years in French history. It opened against the background of the long and bloody French religious wars... and ended with the commencement of the four-and-a-half-year civil wars of the Fronde." Hardcover; xii, 509 pages; index; a bit shelf worn; dj spine sunned; VG.… Ler mais sobre este item

A Paris: Chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1791. Hard Cover. 27 p.; 22 cm. Title continues: Député, Le Révérend Père Chabot, ex-Capucin, & Député, et un Prêtre réfractaire. Reference: Martin & Walter, Révolution française, IV: 2, 4658. Very Good in marbled paper over boards. One of a collection of forty Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French… Ler mais sobre este item

[France? Paris? 1791]. Soft Cover. 7 p.; 19.5 cm. Caption title; without imprint. Opening sentences: Nous ne voulons plus de votre constitution qui nous a ruinés. / Nous ne voulons plus de votre liberté qui n'est que pour les frippons, les voleurs et les assassins. "Nous ne voulons" is repeated 36 times at the head of each paragraph. Martin… Ler mais sobre este item

A Londres: Chez G. Owen T. Cadell... [i.e. Paris? s.n.], 1772. "A fictitious correspondence, attributed to the Marquis F. de Barbe-Marbois" --BLC, vol. 189, page 207. Cioranescu 21762 attributes this work to Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon. The letters in vol. 1 span the years 1753 to 1762; those in vol. 2 and vol. 3, 1746 to 1752. "Ces lettres… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris, Buisson, 1790. Report presented by Jean Philippe Gárran de Coulon, one of the committee members. Martin & Walter 2:14304. Hard Cover. 52, 151 pages; 20.5 cm. VG, contemporary half-leather binding worn. Stock#NS0211.

Paris, Armand Colin, 1949. The first edition of a classic of history which altered the way history was conceived in the post-World War II era. Jack Hexter, in a brilliant and funny essay published in the Journal of Modern History (44: 4, December 1972), points out that Braudel's view of the longue durée developed during five years of imprisonment.… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Burt [191-?]. Hard Cover. "The historical facts of the story are all drawn from Froissart and other contemporary historians..." Chapters include Hut in the Marshes; Thwarted Plot; Knight's Chain; Young Esquire; Off to the Wars; Siege of Hennebon; Jacob van Artevelde; White Ford; Cressy; Siege of a Fortalice; Capture of Calais; Black Death; Poitiers; Jacquerie; Victory and… Ler mais sobre este item