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Blanc, Olivier and Bonnemaison, Joachim
MANSIONS OF PARIS
Paris: Finest SA/Pierre Terrail Ed 1998. PB. fine wraps softcover. color illustrations. ISBN 2879391806 207pp. Finest SA/Pierre Terrail Ed unknown
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Haslett Carrie; Weisberg Gabriel P.; Shaw Jennifer L.
PARIS AND THE COUNTRYSIDE: MODERN LIFE IN LATE-19TH-CENTURY FRANCE
Portland ME: Portland Museum of Art 2006. PB. fine wraps softcover. color illustrations. ISBN 0916857425 135pp. Portland Museum of Art unknown
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Reid, Gerard (edited by)
GREAT IRISH VOICES: OVER 400 YEARS OF IRISH ORATORY
Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. ISBN 0716526743 402pp. Irish Academic Press unknown
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Karmel, Alex
A CORNER IN THE MARAIS - MEMOIR OF A PARIS NEIGHBORHOOD
Boston MA: David R. Godine Publisher 1998. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations. ISBN 1567920748 149pp. David R. Godine, Publisher unknown
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ITALY AND ROTARY
Bergamo: Istituto Italiano D'Arti 1930. PB. good wraps softcover. sepia toned illustrations. 207pp. Istituto Italiano D'Arti unknown
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Frey, Fritz - (Fritz Frey - Burgenstock)
MES AMIES LES FLEURS -- My Friends Flowers
Zurich: Maison d'Ed. Josef von Matt 1976. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket hardcover. color illustrations. L'Auteur Fritz Frey est proprietaire du village hotelier Burgenstock. 125pp. Maison d'Ed. Josef von Matt unknown
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McMahon, Joseph H.
PARIS IN LITERATURE - YALE FRENCH STUDIES THIRTY-TWO
New Haven CT: Yale University 1964. PB. good wraps softcover. A collection of 11 articles in English. 160pp. Yale University unknown
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Grierson, Francis D. (foreword by E. Xavier Guichard)
THE COMPLEAT CROOK - IN FRANCE
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd 1934. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket hardcover. Describes the organization and methods of one of the most efficient police bodies in the world and a narrative of many thrilling adventures. 253pp. Thornton Butterworth, Ltd unknown
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Jeunesse Prehistorique et Geologique de France
CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION DIX ANS DE RECHERCHES EN PAYS DE FRANCE: ARCHEOLOGIE - HISTOIRE - ETHNOGRAPHIE 1970-1980
Paris: J.P.G.F. 1981. PB. very good wraps softcover. B&W illustrations. Report of ten years of research in the counties of France by the society. 164pp. J.P.G.F. unknown
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Beyer, Edvard (introduction by)
WONDERS IN WINTERLAND: THE WHITE PARADISE OF NORWAY
Norway: J. W. Eides Forlag 1948. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations. Beautiful photographs in Norway most of skiing. J. W. Eides Forlag unknown
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Tissot, Victor
UNKNOWN SWITZERLAND - REMINISCENCES OF TRAVEL
New York: James Pott & Co 1900. HC. good decorated green cloth hardcover faint dampstain bottom. B&W illustrations map. Nice look at Switzerland. CONDITION NOTE - Faint dampstain at the bottom edge of the book block not affecting text. 371pp. James Pott & Co unknown
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Norwich, John Julius
PARADISE OF CITIES: VENICE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
New York: Doubleday 2003. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket hardcover. ISBN 0385509049 336pp. Doubleday unknown
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D'Alembert, M. (translated from the French, with a preface and additional notes by J. Aikin)
SELECT EULOGIES OF MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY WITH NOTES; BY THE LATE M. D'ALEMBERT - Two Volume Set Complete
London: A. Strahan Printers 1799. HC. very good rebound in 1/2 green leather hardcover. Volume I 347pp; and Volume II 374pp. Very clean and tight set rebound in green leather spines with marbled boards and endpapers. A. Strahan, Printers unknown
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Ragsdale Hugh
DETENTE IN THE NAPOLEONIC ERA: BONAPARTE AND THE RUSSIANS
Lawrence KS: The Regents Press of Kansas 1980. HC. good w/very good dustjacket hardcover owner's name blindstamp. ISBN 0700602011 In this volume Hugh Ragsdale offers a new interpretation of Napoleonic politics. Previous owner's name blindstamped on clean spot on title page. 183pp. The Regents Press of Kansas unknown
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Brodrick, Alan Houghton
PROSPECT OF FRANCE
London: Hutchinson & Co. Pub. Ltd 1952. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations. Author shows us the French scene as itd is today to give a picture of "a country whose importance for the human spirit it is impossible to overestimate." 222pp. Hutchinson & Co., Pub., Ltd unknown
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Frothingham, Washington
MARTEL PAPERS; OR LIFE SCENES IN THE REIGN OF TERROR - The Spine Reads - ZOE OR THE MARTEL PAPERS
New York: Sheldon & Co 1867. HC. good green cloth hardcover. 468pp. Sheldon & Co unknown
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Wilson, Frank L.
THE FRENCH DEMOCRATIC LEFT 1963-1969: TOWARD A MODERN PARTY SYSTEM
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 1971. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. ISBN 0804707650 During the 1960's three major efforts were made to transform the French non-Communist Left into a more modern cohesive type of political organization. This study describes the efforts explains the reasons for their failure and makes some general observations on the way parties and party systems are changed. 258pp. Stanford University Press unknown
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Sherwood, John M.
GEORGES MANDEL AND THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 1970. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover couple small chips dj. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0804707316 A determined ambitious and extremely able player of the game of parliamentary politics Georges Mandel was one of the leading political figures of the Third French Republic. 393pp. Stanford University Press unknown
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Lindsay Robert O. and Neu John compiled by
FRENCH POLITICAL PAMPHLETS 1547-1648: A CATALOG OF MAJOR COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES
Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Pr 1969. HC. very good light brown cloth hardcover no dustjacket. ISBN 0299049906 The period from 1547 to 1648 was one of the most exciting and eventful hundred years in French history. In between occurred international wars the assassinations of two French kings religious controversy administrative and political innovations tariff wars much social change and the usual amount of palace intrigue and court gossip. Since France had no newspapers pamphlets provided this service. 510pp. University of Wisconsin Pr unknown
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Cook, Theodore Andrea
OLD TOURAINE - THE LIFE AND HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS CHATEAUX OF FRANCE -- Volume I Only
New York: James Pott & Co 1908. HC. very good decorated red cloth teg hardcover. B&W illustrations. 326pp. James Pott & Co unknown
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Slattery, Tom (edited by)
IRISH WISDOM: A BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
New York: Barnes & Noble Books 2004. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket hardcover. ISBN 0760761086 This little volume gathers together more than 250 quotations--there are age-old proverbs selections of poetry and verse quotations about Irish history Irish-Americans Irish music and dance and of course a wee bit of the Irish wit as well. 88pp. Barnes & Noble Books unknown
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Herold, J. Christopher
THE SWISS: WITHOUT HALOS
New York: Columbia University Press 1948. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations. The author who has had the opportunity to know the Swiss as they really are dusts off most of the familiar Swiss legends and lightens the dark corners of history with many little-known facts and much of his own erudite wit. 271pp. Columbia University Press unknown
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Tournoux, Jean-Raymond (translated by Oliver Coburn)
SONS OF FRANCE - PETAIN AND DE GAULLE
New York: The Viking Press 1964. HC. good black cloth hardcover no dustjacket. B&W illustrations. NO DUSTJACKET. 245pp. The Viking Press unknown
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Moody, T. W., and Martin, F. X. (edited by)
THE COURSE OF IRISH HISTORY - REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
Cork: The Mercier Press 1989. PB. very good wraps softcover - previous owner's name. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0853427100 First published in 1967. 479pp. The Mercier Press unknown
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Mrs. Oliphant
THE MAKERS OF MODERN ROME - IN FOUR BOOKS - Large Paper Limited Edition
New York: Macmillan and Co 1895. HC. very good green cloth teg hardcover lt. wear corners/foxing. B&W illustrations. In four books: I. Honourable Women Not a Few II. The Popes Who Made the Papacy III. Lo Popolo: And the Tribune of the People and IV. The Popes who Made the City. With illustrations by Henry P. Riviere and Joseph Pennell. CONDITION NOTE EXPANDED -- Nice clean tight and bright copy with the lightest of edgewear and wear to the corners and some occasional light foxing. This copy is of the limited edition of "One Hundred Copies of the Large Paper Edition printed November 1895." 618pp. Macmillan and Co unknown
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Robertson Alexander
VENETIAN SERMONS DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY ART & CUSTOMS OF VENICE
New York / London: Scribners / George Allen 1905. HC. good red cloth hardcover light wear top/bottom of spine. B&W illustrations. A mixed issue with no title page and no evidence of their ever having been one. Scribners on the spine George Allen on verso of half-title page. Spine stamping reads - DISCOURSES ON THE HISTORY ART & CUSTOMS OF VENICE. Clean and tight but old hinge repairs. 308pp. Scribners / George Allen unknown
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Gibney, Frank
THE FROZEN REVOLUTION - POLAND: A STUDY IN COMMUNIST DECAY
New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1959. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. 269pp. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy unknown
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Hess, John L.
VANISHING FRANCE
New York: Quadrangle / New York Times 1975. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W photos by Harold Chapman. ISBN 0812904834 The author and photographer are showing the subtle changes that were occurring in France. 166pp. Quadrangle / New York Times unknown
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Bullock Alan editor
THE FACES OF EUROPE
Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd 1980. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. 108 ill. w/93 in color. ISBN 0714820946 The chapters in this book are arranged according to the different professions and activities in which people spend their lives-each has a different picture of Europe a different experience a different set of associations. It is the history of these diverse worlds and of their influence on society at large that forms the theme of this book. 448pp. Phaidon Press Ltd unknown
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Lundquist, Gosta (edited by)
SWEDEN: PAST AND PRESENT
Stockholm: Swedish Tourist Traffic Assn 1948. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket hardcover. B&W ill. color map. This book presents some glimpses of Sweden's history as well as of modern life in this country. 196pp. Swedish Tourist Traffic Assn unknown
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Starobinski Jean translated by Barbara Bray
1789: THE EMBLEMS OF REASON
Charlottesville VA: University Press of Virginia 1982. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0813909155 Starobinski pursues a subtle and brilliant meditation on the connections between art and revolution comparing the style of the French Revolution as a political event to style in the contemporaneous visual arts. 298pp. University Press of Virginia unknown
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Schechter, Betty
THE DREYFUS AFFAIR: A NATIONAL SCANDAL
Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1965. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations. This vivid account of the Dreyfus Affair reads like a cloak-and-dagger mystery. It provides a chilling example of what can happen when justice and the safeguards of proper legal procedure are sacrificed to some presumed honor or security. 264pp. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
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Lord, Arthur Power
THE REGENCY OF MARIE DE MEDICIS: A STUDY OF FRENCH HISTORY FROM 1610 TO 1616
New York: Henry Holt and Company 1903. HC. good 3/4 leather teg hardcover some light edgewear. B&W and color illustrations. Nice clean and tight 3/4 leather bound copy. 180pp. Henry Holt and Company unknown
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Macaulay, Thomas Babington (edited by Joseph Hamburger)
NAPOLEON AND THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS
New York: Columbia University Press 1977. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W frontis. ISBN 0231043767 The completed portion of Macaulay's projected HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS TO THE ACCESSION OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. 117pp. Columbia University Press unknown
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Le Gallienne, Richard (with an introduction by William Rose Benet)
FROM A PARIS SCRAPBOOK
New York: Ives Washburn Inc 1938. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket hardcover. The eagerly awaited companion volume to FROM A PARIS GARRET. 351pp. Ives Washburn Inc unknown
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Thomson David selected and introduced by
FRANCE: EMPIRE AND REPUBLIC 1850-1940
New York: Walker and Company 1968. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket hardcover. A volume in The Documentary History of Western Civilization. The theme of this volume is the historical development of France from the middle of the last century until her defeat by Germany in the summer of 1940. It spans in political terms two of the ten regimes France has known since the beginning of the nineteenth century: the Second Empire of Napoleon III and the Third Republic. 383pp. Walker and Company unknown
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Gourevitch, Peter Alexis
PARIS AND THE PROVINCES: THE POLITICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM IN FRANCE
Berkeley CA: Univ. of California Press 1980. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket hardcover. ISBN 0520039718 By evaluating the territorial distribution between the capitol and the countryside as both an influence on and an object of policy this book contributes significantly to understanding the connections between party politics and policy formation. 251pp. Univ. of California Press unknown
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Laumonier, Paul
TABLEAU CHRONOLOGIQUE DES OEUVRES DE RONSARD SUIVI DE POESIES NON RECUEILLIES ET D'UNE TABLE ALPHABETIQUE
New York: Burt Franklin 1969. HC. fine maroon cloth hardcover no dustjacket as issued. NO DUSTJACKET AS PUBLISHED. 143pp. Burt Franklin unknown
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Lesser, Margaret
CLARKEY: A PORTRAIT IN LETTERS OF MARY CLARKE MOHL 1793-1883
Oxford: Oxford University Press 1984. HC. very good blue cloth hardcover no dustjacket. ISBN 0192117874 NO DUSTJACKET. A look at the intellectual life of France in the 19th century. 235pp. Oxford University Press unknown
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Williams, Philip M. and Harrison, Martin
DE GAULLE'S REPUBLIC
London: Longmans 1960. HC. good red cloth hardcover fade to spine EX-LIB no dustjacket. NO DUSTJACKET - Contents include: Part One The Ancien Regime; Part Two Cincinnatus Returns; and Part Three The New Reign. 279pp. Longmans unknown
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Lewis David L.
PRISONERS OF HONOR: THE DREYFUS AFFAIR
New York: William Morrow & CompanyInc 1973. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. 45 B&W ill. ISBN 0688002021 The Affair began with the persecution of one man Alfred Dreyfus the French Army's most promising Jewish officer who was falsely accused of passing military secrets to Germany. It ended as the cause celebre of the nineteenth century the Affair not only of France but of the world an event that eventually was to cause mass protests in Europe and America and produce Emile Zola's ringing J'Accuse and involve such famous figures as Mark Twain William James and Queen Victoria. 346pp. William Morrow & Company,Inc unknown
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Jones R. Ben
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1968. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover. 4 B&W maps. This study follows the Revolution from its mid-eighteenth-century origins through the fall of the throne the Jacobin coup the Terror and the fall of Robespierre to the beginning of the Napoleonic era in 1799. Major crises are analyzed in terms of the most recent scholarship and contemporary interpretation sheds new light on the myths surrounding Marat the Terror and the sans-culottes. 216pp. Funk & Wagnalls unknown
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Forster, Robert
MERCHANTS LANDLORDS MAGISTRATES: THE DEPONT FAMILY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr 1980. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket hardcover. B&W figures B&W maps. ISBN 0801824060 The author discovered a series of father-to-son letters which presented an unusual opportunity to trace in human terms the impact of institutions and cultural norms on eighteenth-century French society. From these letters and other family papers Forster has reconstructed a family biography of the Deponts of La Rochelle over four generations. 275pp. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr unknown
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Duruy, Victor
HISTOIRE DE FRANCE - Nouvelle Edition - Two Volume Set - Volume One and Volume Two
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie 1884. HC. good blue cloth spine w/paper covered boards hardcover. B&W illustrations maps. Two volume set in French; 767pp 717pp. Light edgewear. Librairie Hachette Et Cie unknown
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Shaffer, John W.
FAMILY AND FARM: AGRARIAN CHANGE AND HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZATION IN THE LOIRE VALLEY 1500-1900
Albany NY: State Univ. of New York Pr 1982. PB. good wraps softcover. B&W ill. 12 B&W maps. ISBN 0873955633 The history of the communautes the large patriarchal households of central France from the close of the medieval era to the nineteenth century. 258pp. State Univ. of New York Pr unknown
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Gosling, Nigel
THE ADVENTUROUS WORLD OF PARIS 1900-1914
New York: William Morrow and Co. Inc 1978. HC. very good w/good dustjacket hardcover small chip on dustjacket. B&W and color ill. ISBN 0688033660 It is hardly an exaggeration to say that on the slopes of Montmartre between 1900 and 1914 the Renaissance died and that the tiny band of painters writers and musicians living there initiated the artistic world of today. It is this great flowering of creativity in Paris that the author vividly evokes in this beautifully illustrated book. 240pp. William Morrow and Co., Inc unknown
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Zdatny, Steven M.
THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL: ARTISANS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRANCE
New York: Oxford University Press 1990. HC. fine w/very good dustjacket hardcover. ISBN 0195059409 The struggles of the French middle classes squeezed between history "from above" and history "from below" are often overlooked. The author recaptures the experiences of a signal group of the middle class: master artisans. 258pp. Oxford University Press unknown
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Fleisher, Eric W. & Weibull, Jorgen
VIKING TIMES TO MODERN
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1953. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W illustrations. The story of Swedish exploring and settlement in America and the development of trade and shipping from the Vikings to our time. 115pp. Almqvist & Wiksell unknown
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Heffernan, James A. W. (edited by)
REPRESENTING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: LITERATURE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ART
Hanover NH: Dartmouth/UnivPr New England 1992. pb. fine wraps softcover. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0874515653 Fourteen essays examine how the French Revolution has been represented in art literature and historical narratives from England France Germany and the Caribbean. 286pp. Dartmouth/UnivPr New England unknown
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Mazzini, Franco
I MATTONI E LE PIETRE DI URBINO
Urbino: Argalia Editore 1982. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket hardcover. B&W and color ill. 611pp. Argalia Editore unknown
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