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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Lacking the Jacket. (USA) Bookplate, pencil notations here and there giving English translations of certain words, hinges fine, light rubbing to corner tips, Very Good used copy; lacking the dust jacket. 19 x 13 cm, navy embossed cloth, gold titles, 177pp. Two page map of France showing the departments in colour. No other illus. The author was a professor of French at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn NY. This is a reader with text entirely in French which presents the country of France, its industry and agriculture, customs and history. I believe it first appeared in 1886. (1.3 JM HOQ 100/2 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Condition: Fine. 16mo, pp. vi, 210, [16] almanac and publisher's advertisements, with engraved frontispiece and title, and 3 further engraved plates in the text; original red roan, flat spine in compartments, elaborately gilt, gilt lettering to spine; a very fine copy. First and only issue of a very rare legitimist almanac, dedicated to the widow of the duc d'Orleans, and published in favour of the Bourbon dynasty retaking the throne. Napoleon defeated and banished to St Helena, the Bourbon king Louis XVIII - restored to the throne for the second time - attempted to establish the constitutional monarchy which had been the condition of his return. In addition to patriotic songs starting with L'arrivée de Louis XVIII ou God save the King des Français, to a Vaudeville rendition of La Paix Universelle, we find a large number of songs, couplets and dances. At the end is a saints calendar for 1815 together with other almanac information, together with a two-page advertisement of publications by the publisher Rosa. Grand-Carteret 1726 (not seen, just citing after the Rosa catalogue); OCLC: Florida; Copenhagen.…