Paris: Firmin-Didot 1884. Leather. Very Good. 11.5" by 8.5". Not Stated. A handsome copy documenting the history of France between 1795-1815. With ten chromolithographs and 410 illustrations. Covering the period of ascendancy for Napoleon Bonaparte Lacroix examines all parts of French society. Seen as the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution the Napoleonic era saw the deposing of the Directory which governed France and a period of territorial expansion. Lacroix analyses Napoleon's leadership and how literature music science and the arts were influence by his reign. In a fine half morocco binding with gilt detail. Externally smart with some rubbing and handling marks. Library label to spine. Ex libris bookplate to front pastedown. Tear to front free-endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with some spotting to first and last. Library stamps to frontmatter. Browning to first and last. Very Good Firmin-Didot hardcover
Covici Friede 1931. Hardback. Good. 1931 Revised Edition HB Covici Friede Two Volumes; no dust jackets; bookplates for the late artist John Napper Covici Friede hardcover
Pascal Covici 1926T. hardcover. Very Good. . 3-volume set. Octavo original half white cloth origial paper spine labels uncut. Limited first English edition #584 for subscribers only illustrated with pictorial frontispieces. Occasional marginalia in pencil one small repaired marginal closed tear light soiling to the cover. Pascal Covici hardcover
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