‎LE SIEGE DE SEBASTOPOL 1854-1855 - PAR L'AUTEUR DE RENE -‎

‎LEFORT. 1856. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Quelques rousseurs. 144 pages - Frontispice en noir et blanc de la prise de Sebastopol. . . . Classification Dewey : 990-Histoire générale des autres pays‎

‎2ème Edition - Classification Dewey : 990-Histoire générale des autres pays‎

‎Les Matinées du Roi de Prusse. Avec une Introduction par E.-A. Spoll.‎

‎Paris, Libr. de Bibliophiles, 1885. Small 8vo. Fine orig. hcalf, gilt spine and gilt lettering to covers. (4),62,(1) pp. Printed on fine paper.‎

‎Les paraboles‎

‎Siloe 1952 in8. 1952. Broché. Illustrées par Soeur Christiane-Marie I.C. et commentées par M.Philibert‎

‎Bon Etat. Tache sur le côté droit de la couverture et pages jaunis‎

‎Les Proces de messieurs le mareschal de Marillac, le duc de Montmorency, de Sainct-Preuil de Cincq-Mars et de Thou.‎

‎Paris, 1650. 12mo. In contemporary limp vellum. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Small tear to spine, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (2), 333, (3), 96 pp.‎

‎The uncommon first edition of the account of the trial of Louis de Marillac who was decapitated on 10 May 1632 at the Place de Grève in Paris. The present work function as part two of “Memoires du cardinal de Richelieu”, but is a separate work in itself.‎

‎Les ruses d'amour pour rendre les favoris contens. - [""TRICKS OF LOVE""]‎

‎A Ville Franche, Joli Le Franc, 1681. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, a few holes to front board, showing the wooden board. Corners bumped. Internally nice and clean. (10), 514 pp. + frontispiece.‎

‎Uncommon first edition of this work containing 31 gallant or facetious tales and stories, also referred to as ‘tricks of love. These short stories was most likely inspired by Boccaccio. The anonymous author announced a sequel which never appeared. Not in Barbier.‎

‎Lettre A*** sur le duc de Reichstadt par un de ses amis. (Traduit de l'allemand.).‎

‎Prague, Kronberger et Weber, 1833. Orig. printed boards, clothbacked. Stamp on title. 22 pp.‎

‎l'Exposition Coloniale 1931.‎

‎1931 12, 2 p., 56 (of 60) pls, roy. 4to, loose in original decorated cloth covers (as issued). Plates 21/22 & 33/34 are missing.‎

‎Liste des membres arrêtée au 24 mars 1948.‎

‎1948 Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, supplément, 1948 : In-8 Raisin, Broché. xxx, Très bon état, ‎

‎List of members of the Entomological Society of London, 31st december, 1884.‎

‎1884 Trans.ent.Soc.London, 1884 : in-8, broché extrait, xi-xvi, très bon état !‎

‎Lithografiskt Album. Illustrerad Månadsskrift för Familjer.‎

‎Stockholm, Stockh. Art. Lith. Anstalt, 1872. 4to. Orig. blåt helshirtbd. med guldtryk på forperm, blindtryk på permer. Øverste kapitæl slidt. (2),22 pp. samt 18 lithograferede plancher (landskaber, portrætter, genre) heriblandt et stort Stockholmsprospekt i tonet litografi.‎

‎Livre d'or international. Chiens et chats.‎

‎1953 237 p., num. photographs, one drawing by Cocteau, 4to, hardbound (embossed front cover). Five hundreds numbered copies were printed (this is number 115).‎

‎Livres généalogique des races françaises de chevaux de selle (Anglo-Arabes, Normands, Chevaux du Centre, Vendéens, Charentais). I. Anglo-Arabes du Limousin.‎

‎1934 238 p., 16 photographic pls (last 4 with faint waterstain in lower blank margin), paperbound (original printed covers with photograph of horse laid on - as issued). Scarce.The first in a series French Stud Books (''Cet ouvrage est le premier de toute une série de livres généalogiques ou livres d'élite concernant nos races de chevaux de sang......'' from the preface by le Marquis H. de Pierre).‎

‎Magazin der neuesten merkwürdigen Kriegsbegebenheiten. 7 vols. (all).‎

‎Frankfurt, Esslinger, 1794 - 1796. 8vo. Seven volumes: Four in contemporary blue paper covered boards, three in purple paper covered boards, otherwise uniformly bound with gilt lettering and small paper-label to spines. Wear to extremities, scratches to boards and edges of boards miscoloured. Internally with occassional light foxing, but generally nice and clean. (4), 268 pp. (4), 332, (1) pp. 336, (1) pp. 340 pp. 334, (2) pp. 336 pp. + 2 folded tables. 311 pp. + 3 folded plates. ‎

‎The scarce first edition, rarely found complete with all seven volumes as here, of this work offering accounts detailing significant and notable events from recent wars supplemented by examples from earlier historical conflicts.‎

‎Manoeuvres de Force en Usage dans l'Artillerie.‎

‎Metz, Collignon, n. d. ca. 1800. Uncut in original blue blank covers. Upper cover detached. 88 pp.‎

‎Matériels Allemands et Autrichiens a grande Puissance. Avec 111 Figures dans le Texte et 6 planches hors texte.‎

‎Nancy-Paris-Strasbourg, Berger-Levrault, 1921. Contemp. hcloth. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Orig. printed frontwrapper pasted on upper cover. 248 pp., textillustrations, 6 folded plates.‎

‎Memoriae Perillustris Academiae Nat. Cur. Praesidis Ioannis Christiani Daniel Nobilis de Schreber.‎

‎1818 14 p., 4to, disbound (no covers). Published in: Nova Acta Physico Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum.‎

‎Mercure Danois, Dedie au Roi. Mai 1759.‎

‎Copenhague, 1759. 8vo. Bound in nice recent marbled paper covered boards with leather title-label to spine. Title-page with stamp and extensive repairs to outer margin, not affecting text. First 7 ff. with repairs in margin, occassionally touching text. Leaf A8 with extensive repairs. 111, (1) pp. ‎

‎Militairische Briefe eines deutschen Officiers während einer reise durch die Schweiz und das mittlere Frankreich im Anfange des Jahres 1844. Mit besonderer Bezugnahme auf die neueren französischen Befestigungsanlagen in militairischer und politischer ...‎

‎Adorf, Verlagsbureau, 1845. Uncut in orig. brown blank boards, original printed titlelabel on spine. Wear to top of spine. Some small nick to paper at fronthinge. Stamps on title-page. VIII,382 pp. and 2 large folded lithographed plans (Paris, Lyon). First leaves brownspotted. A few scattered brownspots. Some foxing to plans.‎

‎First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 2535.‎

‎Militairisches Taschen=Buch für Subaltern=Officiere der Infanterie.‎

‎Wesel, Franz Jacob Röder, 1802. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel gone. Stamps on title-page. (40),108 pp., 3 folded engraved plates.‎

‎Militairisches Taschen=Buch für Subaltern=Officiere der Infanterie.‎

‎Wesel, Franz Jacob Röder, 1802. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of Stamps on title-page. (40),108 pp., 3 folded engraved plates.‎

‎Militärische Biographien berümter Helden neuerer Zeit. Vorzüglich für junge Officiere, und für die Söhne des Adels, die zum Militär=Dienste bestimmt wird. 1.-3. Bd. (von 5).‎

‎Berlin, Himburgischen Buchh., 1803-05. 3 cont. hcalf. Richly gilt backs. Titlelabels in leather a little torn. With 7 engraved portraits and 11 folded maps. Stamp on titles. Internally clean an on good paper.‎

‎Having engraved portraits of Peter I, Luxemburg, Carl XII, Gustav Adolf, Prinz Eugen, Condé and Turenne.‎

‎Mois de saint joseph‎

‎J.lefort 1876 in12. 1876. Relié.‎

‎reliure défraîchie. dos abîmé. dorure sur les tranches qql rousseurs‎

‎Musenklänge aus Deutschlands Leierkasten. Mit feinen Holzschnitten. Siebente Auflage.‎

‎Leipzig, Bernhard Schlicke, ca. 1860. 12mo. Boards covered with cloth and orig. frontwrapper pasted on frontboard. 190,(2) pp. and around 200 woddcut-illustrations in the text.‎

‎Mysterium Crucis. Das ist: Schrifftliche Eröffnung der Geheimnissen und Krafft des Creutzes Christi, nebst Beweisung, dass dasselbe Creutz die enge Pforte und der schmale Weg sey der zum Leben führet.‎

‎(No place, nor printer), 1710. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. Three-line poem in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Closely trimmed in outer margin, touching text, otherwise a good clean copy. 235, (1) pp. + 1 double-page engraved frontispiece. ‎

‎Scarce early 18th-century devotional work on the mysteries and salvific power of the Cross of Christ. The text provides a detailed spiritual exposition of the symbolism and theological significance of Christ's crucifixion, intended for meditative reading.‎

‎Mémoires concernant la Guerre pour la succession d'Autriche 1741 - 1748. 3 vols. - [FINE FRENCH MANUSCRIPT ON THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION]‎

‎[No place nor year, but presumably last quarter of the 18th Century]. Folio (415 x 260 mm). 45 quires loosely inserted in contemporary cardboard binding. French manuscript in brown ink in very fine legible hand within double framed borders. Binding with wear, internally very fine and clean. [Vol. 1:] XXXII, 76 pp [vol. 2:] (8), 156 pp. [vol. 3:] (6), 219 pp. ‎

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‎Very nice French manuscript on the War of the Austrian Succession. Thomas, Georg Martin: Codices manu scripti Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis Gallici 155.OCLC locates one similar manuscript (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB-Hss Cod.gall. 107) ‎