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Artz, Frederick B.
The Development of Technical Education in France 1500 - 1850.
Cambridge, MA: Society for the History of Technology/MIT Press, 1966.
1st edition. Very good in very good price clipped dust jacket. Edges and
corners have slight wear. Nautical bookplate on endpaper. 274 p. w/index. A
survey of the evolution of French technical education and its founders and
opponents over 4 centuries. $16.00.
Bonaparte, Hotense. edited by Jean Hanoteau.
The Memoirs of Queen Hortense, published by Arrangement with Prince Napoleon. 2
vols.
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: 1927.
1st edition. Very good w/o dust jackets. Bookplates on pastedowns. Some suffing
and shelf wear to both volumes. 347 p. & 390 p. w/illustrations, notes. Memoirs
of the private inner court life and activities of Napoleon Bonaparte by his
step daughter The Queen of Holland. $50.00.
Byrnes, Robert F.
Antisemitism in Modern France: Volume I: The Prologue to the Dreyfus Affair.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1950.
1st edition. Very good hardcover in a good dust jacket. Light wear on edges
of the boards, slight crease in spine, slight gap between head of spine and
binding, light bumps on heel of spine and corners of the boards. Dj is
scuffed, with wear on the edges and tears on the lower edge of the front cover
and along the head of the spine, and chips missing from lower and lower front
cover's corners. 348 pages with footnotes and an index. An interesting study
of Antisemitism in France and the origins of the Dreyfus Affair, 1894. This
volume examines the developemnt of antisemitism from 1870 through 1894. $23.00.
Coleman, Dorothy Gabe.
The Gallo-Roman Muse: Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century
France.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
1st edition. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to
edges of the boards. Dj is lightly worn along the edges of covers and the
covers are lightly scuffed. 196 pages with footnotes, select bibliography, and
index. A study of the influence of Latin poetry and Roman rhetoric on French
literature in the 16th century. $15.00.
Feher, Ferenc. editor.
The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.
1st edition. Fine hardcover in very good dust jacket. Slight scuffing on
covers of dj. 289 pages with notes after each essay and an index. A fine
collection of essays on the French Revolution as the beginning of the modern
era. There are 3 sections of essays that deal with state, nation, and class
during the revolution; the Terror; and the ideological legacy of the
revolution. Essays by Miguel Abensour, Ferenc Feher, Francois Furet, Patrice
Higonnet, Eric Hobsbawm, Gary Kates, Meyer Kestnbaum, Harvy Mitchell, Brian
Singer, Theda Skocpol, Steven Smith, Charles Tilly, and Immanuel Wallerstein.
$40.00.
Forster, Robert.
The House of Saulx - Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy 1700 - 1830.
Johns Hopkins:1971.
1st edition. Very good in very good price clipped dust jacket. Slight scuffing
to binding. A number of pages have pencil notes or unerlining. Dj has shelf
wear to edges and corners, with a small tear to top left. 277 p. w/analysis of
documents, bibliography, index. A history of one French noble family and its
transition from semi-feudal autonomy to court life at Versailles. $10.00.
Gibbons, Herbert Adams. Illustrations by Giovanni Petrina.
Ports of France.
Jonathan Cape: 1927. 1st edition Very good in blue cloth w/o dj. Binding has
shelf wear to edges and corners. Slight scuffing to boards. 319 p.
w/illustrations. A discussion of the ports of France, with historical anecdotes
and good descriptions of them from the time the book was written. $15.00.
Golsan, Richard J.
Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France.
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
1st paperback edition. Very good trade paperback. Light wear and scuffing to
covers. 232 pages with endnotes, selected bibliography, and index. An
interesting study of the historiography surrounding Vichy France and its impact
on the modern "France's national consciousness." (cover blurb). $20.00.
Green, F. C.
Eighteenth-Century France: Six Essays.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1929. 1st edition. Very good hardcover without
dust jacket. Covers lightly scuffed with light wear and light rubbing to edges
of the boards and bumping to the head and heel of spine with heavy bumping to
the upper corners of the panels. Pages are lightly browned. 221 pages. As
the title indicates, a collection of 6 essays on French history in the
eighteenth century. The essays are "John Law," "Anglomaniacs and
Francophiles," "L'Abbe Coyer-A Society in Transition," "Voltaire's Greatest
Enemy," "Playhouses," and "The Censorship." $15.00.
Guerard, Albert.
France.
University of Michigan: 1959.
1st edition. Fine in very good price clipped dust jacket. Dj has some wear to
edges and corners, with scuffing to cover. 563 p. + xxvii w/notes, appendices,
suggested readings, index. A good, scholarly, complete history of France from
prehistory through the 1950's. $12.00.
Hahn, Roger.
The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences,
1666-1803.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971.
1st edition. Very good hardcover in good price-clipped dust jacket. Light
rubbing to edges of boards, slight yellowing to board edges, and light scuffing
to covers. Dj is worn and rubbed along the edges and spine with some small
tears along the edges and light scuffing on the covers. Name of previous owner
on front free endpaper. 433 pages with illustrations, footnotes, 3 appendices
(1. bibliographical note, 2. bibliographical data on academicians, 3.
bibliography), index of names, and general index. An examination of the
history of the Paris Academy of Sciences from the era of Louis XIV until the
time of Napoleon with special attention focused on the academy's interaction
with society. $30.00.
Hamilton, George Heard. (Edouard Manet).
Manet and His Critics.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.
1st edition. Good hardcover without dust jacket. Wear to edges of the boards
with bumping to the head and heel of the spine, and light scuffing to covers.
Pages are lightly yellowed at the edges. Name of previous owner written on
front free endpaper and small bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. 295
pages with 39 illustrations at the end of text, footnotes, bibliographical
notes, index of paintings by Manet, and general index. An excellent book on
the famous French Impressinist painter, Edouard Manet, and the criticisms made
of him and his art during the later half of the nineteenth century. $30.00.
Hoffman, Robert L.
More Than a Trial: the Struggle Over Captain Dreyfus.
Free Press: 1980.
1st edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Dj has light shelf wear at edges
and corners. 247 p. w/illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $12.00.
James, Edward.
The Franks.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.
1st edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edges and corners have some
wear. 265 p. w/illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. The first English
language history of the Franks, the Germanic people who settled Gaul and
Western Germany in the early middle ages. The book covers the early history of
the Franks, through the Merovingian dynasty up to the end of the 6th century.
$20.00.
Knapton, Ernest John.
Revolutionary and Imperial France 1750 - 1815.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972.
1st edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Binding and Dj has slight wear
to edges and corners. 147 p. w/bibliography, index, and a few illustrations and
maps. A brief but useful history of Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras of French
History. $18.00.
Le Petit Homme Rouge.
Court Life of the Second French Empire 1852-1870 : Its Organization, Chief
Personages, Splendour, Frivolity, and Downfall.
Charles Scribners Sons:1907.
1st edition. Very good in green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt Napoleonic
Bee design on front board. Scuffing and shelf wear to board edges, spine and
corners, more extensive along spine head and tail. Small tear to cloth along
spine. Slight foxing to endpapers and title pages. Last to pages uncut. 429 p.
w/frontispiece, index. An interesting, somewhat critical history of the court
life, with details on a number of famous personages in the Second Empire,
included the Emperor and Empress. A scarce work. $65.00.
Levin, Miriam R.
Republican Art and Ideology in Late Nineteenth-Century France.
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.
1st edition. Fine hardcover in gray cloth binding with no dust jacket. 339
pages with illustrations, notes, select bibliography, and index. An
interesting study of the art policy of the early years of the Third Republic.
Among the art projects studied is the Eiffel Tower. $30.00.
Mayeur, Jean-Marie, and Madeleine Reberioux. Translated by J. R. Foster.
The Third Republic: From Its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Paperback edition. Good tight trade paperback. Wear to edges of covers, some
scuffing to covers with price tag leftovers on back cover, and some yellowing
of pages. 392 pages with chronology, diagrams and tables, endnotes,
bibliography, and index. The fourth volume in the Cambridge History of Modern
France, it examines the rise of the Third Republic from the end of the
Franco-Prussian War and the crisis of the Paris Commune in 1871 to the
beginning of World War I in 1914. $15.00.
Norman, Barbara.
Napoleon and Talleyrand: The Last Two Weeks.
New York: Stein and Day, 1976.
1st edition. Good hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of the
boards. Dj is scuffed, lightly rubbed along the spine, and worn on the edges
with a few minor tears (a one inch tear on head of spine). Last page of index
is loose and appears that back free endpaper (picture of Napoleon?) has been
removed. 299 pages with maps, appendix, endnotes, bibliography, and index. An
exploration of the relationship between Napoleon and Talleyrand during March
1814 when the Emperor's empire came tumbling down. $15.00.
Orieux, Jean. Translated by Patricia Wolf.
Talleyrand: The Art of Survival.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
1st edition. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges
of the boards and light bumping to the heel of the spine. Dj is browned on
covers, faded along spine, worn on edges with some minor tears and one larger
tear near the heel of the spine. 677 pages + xxiii with endnotes,
illustrations, bibliography, and index. One of the better biographies of
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord (1754-1838), the French statesman who
helped in Napoleon's rise and fall from power. $30.00.
Pevitt, Christine.
The Man Who Would Be King: the Life of Philippe D'Orleans, Regent of France.
Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1997.
1st edition. Very good in fine dust jacket. Crease in pastedown endpaper. A few
pages have slight wear at edges. 366 p. w/illustrations, notes, short
bibliography, index. A good biography of an outstanding and scandalous French
noble who was regent after the death of Louis XIV the Sun King til his son came
of age. Phlippe was a warrior, rebel, adminstrator, womanizer, scholar,
hedonist, patron of the arts, and advocate of American colonization by the
French. $14.00.
Rosenberg, Pierre.
The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710 - 1774.
Toldeo OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 1975.
1st edition. Very good in illustrated stiff wraps. Edges and corners have
slight wear. Errata tipped in at front. 94 p. w/bibliography and 127 b&w
plates. An exhibition of French paintings, with brief descriptions of both
artists and works. $20.00.
Schweizer, K. W.
Francois de Callieres: Diplomat and man of Letters 1645 - 1717.
Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.
1st edition. Very good w/o dust jacket. Fading to spine and covers. 127 p.
w/endnotes, bibliography of works by Jacques and Francois de Callieres,
bibliography, index. A study of the life and imapct of one of the greatest
diplomats of history under Louis XIV. He was also the writer of the classic and
still pre-eminent book on diplomacy, "The Art of Diplomacy." $50.00.
Sloane, William Milligan.
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. 4 Volume Set.
New York: The Century Company, 1909.
Fourth printing, first published in 1894 by the Century Company. Four very
good oversized hardcovers in red cloth binding without dust jackets. Wear to
edges of the boards, bumping to head and heel of spine, scuffing to covers.
Volume I has a small tear in binding at head of spine, volume 4 has a small
tear in binding at heel of the spine. Some pencil underlining in the volumes
and pencil written notes on back free endpaper. Light foxing of page edges.
Volumes I has 283 pages with illustrations and maps; V2 has 283 pages with
illustrations and maps; V3 has 270 pages with maps and illustrations; and V4
has 313 pages with maps, illustrations, historical sources, and index. An old
but still important work on Napoleon Bonaparte and Europe during the era of the
Napoleonic Wars. $115.00.
Venturi, Lionello.
Les Archives de L'Impressionnisme: Lettres de Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley
et Autres. Memoires de Paul Durand-Ruel. Documents. (2 Volumes).
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968.
Reprint of original done in 1939. Two very good hardcovers without dust
jackets. Browning of pages at edges and slight foxing to page edges. Boards
are lightly worn and rubbed along edges with some light scuffing to the covers.
Volume I has 465 pages with illustrations and footnotes. Volume II has 360
pages with illustrations, footnotes, and index. This is the source for letters
of the Impressionist movement artists. $330.00.
Weart, Spencer R.
Scientists in Power.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979.
1st edition. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing
to edges of boards, light bumping to heel of spine, and light foxing to page
edges. Dj is scuffed, lightly worn on edges with a few minor tears and small
chips missing along the back upper edge of the cover. 343 pages with
illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. The story of French atomic
energy research from how a few scientists in Paris in 1939 created a nuclear
reactor and wrote a secret patent for a uranium bomb to how Frederic
Joliot-Curie launched France's nuclear energy program in the late 1940s.
$15.00.
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