Yesterday's Muse Books

Item #2305162 The Trial of John Peltier, Esq. for a Libel against Napoleon Buonaparte, First...

Adams, James; Mackintosh, James

The Trial of John Peltier, Esq. for a Libel against Napoleon Buonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, at the Court of King's-Bench, Middlesex, on Monday the 21st of February, 1803.

London: Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis... for M. Peltier, 1803. Hard Cover.

French and English text. Hinges weakening with first gathering loosening, boards lightly soiled and discolored.

xxxii, 312, clii pp. 4to. Blind-stamped brown cloth with cloth title label affixed (the label is likely newer, as it does not.....

Price: $150.00

Bigelow, John

France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-1868: An International Episode

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, ink bookseller stamp on front endpaper.

x, 247, 4 pp. 8vo. An account of the plot to construct several vessels for the Confederate Navy in French dockyards, for which the Confederacy made.....

Price: $250.00

Item #2301435 Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine:...

[Bonaparte, Napoleon]; Abbott, John S. C.

Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages

New York: Mason Brothers, 1856. Hard Cover.

Former a binder's copy - has been repaired. Loss to spine head, spine base and to front joint; ink name on title page.

404 pp. With numerous illustrative notes and anecdotes. Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of.....

Price: $75.00

Item #2292236 Campbell's Illustrated History of the Paris International Exposition Universelle of...

Campbell, James B.

Campbell's Illustrated History of the Paris International Exposition Universelle of 1900

Chicago, Ill. Chicago and Omaha Publishing Company, 1900. Large Hardcover.

Some soiling to boards, hinges starting.

196 pp. A presentation of the world's achievements in literature, science, industry, art and architecture, as shown at the Paris Exposition at the close of the Nineteenth Century.

Price: $350.00

D'Epinay, Madame [Louise Florence Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles]; Freese, J.H.

The Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame d'Epinay, in Three Volumes

London: H.S. Nichols Ltd., 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition, one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled, bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper.

Complete in three volumes. xlviii, 337, [3]; vii, [1], 348; viii, 356 pp. 8vo. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by J.H. Freese. Includes.....

Price: $125.00

Erckmann-Chatrian

Erckmann-Chatrian Novels, in 6 Volumes: An Episode of the End of the Empire; Waterloo; Madame Therese; The Plebiscite; The Invasion of France; The Conscript

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900. Hard Cover.

No jacket. All volumes: A few small spots on page ridge, ink name on front free endpaper.

Six volume set. "Erckmann-Chatrian is a pen name for two writers : Émile Erckmann (Phalsbourg 1822 - Lunéville 1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (Soldatenthal 1826 -.....

Price: $50.00

Item #2330097 America's Feeble Weapon: Funding the Marshall Plan in France and Italy, 1948-1950...

Esposito, Chiarella

America's Feeble Weapon: Funding the Marshall Plan in France and Italy, 1948-1950 (Contributions to the Study of World History, Number 46)

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. No jacket.

xxxii, 226 pp. Unlike earlier studies of the Marshall Plan, this volume concentrates not on events in Washington, but on those in France and Italy--the second and third largest beneficiaries of the Plan. Using U.S., French, and.....

Price: $90.00

Item #2328461 Paris: Portrait d'une Ville / Portrait of a City / Portrat Einer Stadt [FRENCH,...

Gautrand, Jean Claude

Paris: Portrait d'une Ville / Portrait of a City / Portrat Einer Stadt [FRENCH, ENGLISH AND GERMAN TEXT]

Koln: Taschen, 2014. Large Hardcover.

A fine copy in a fine jacket.

543 pp. Text in French, English and German. A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography.It was on the banks of the Seine that Niépce and.....

Price: $75.00 save 15% $63.75

Gibbs, Philip

The Battles of the Somme

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1917. Reissue. Hard Cover.

Loss to jacket spine head, jacket edges rubbed. Page ridges faintly foxed, ink name and ink notes on front endpapers.

377 pp. Includes maps. Ten pages of publisher ads follow text. "The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme.....

Price: $150.00

Grant, Hamil

The Soul of Napoleon

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1921. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. No jacket. No publisher date (pencil date dated 1921). Boards lightly rubbed, page ridges faintly foxed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on front free endpaper.

298 pp. Green boards. CONTENTS: The Genesis of Napoleon; The.....

Price: $50.00

Item #2278773 Franklin in France. from Original Documents, Most of Which Are Now Published for...

Hale, Edward E. [Everett]; Hale, Edward E., Jr.

Franklin in France. from Original Documents, Most of Which Are Now Published for the First Time.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Former library copy, with marks of Euclid Avenue Congregational School inside, spine, rear board, and front matter stained. Euclid Avenue Congregational Church pamphlet Vol. XVIII No. 46, Cleveland, March 15, 1903, laid in.

xvi, [6], 478, [4] pp. 8vo. An.....

Price: $50.00

Hale, Richard Walden

Democratic France: The Third Republic from Sedan (1871) to Vichy (1940)

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, jacket corners trimmed (list price still present).

xiii, 414 pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. Includes the Constitution of the Third Republic, bibliography and index follow text. A study published at the onset of World War II.....

Price: $50.00

Item #2332656 Salon de 1892: Societe des Artistes Francais et Societe Nationale des Beaux-arts...

Hustin, A.

Salon de 1892: Societe des Artistes Francais et Societe Nationale des Beaux-arts [FRENCH TEXT]

Paris: Ludovic Baschet. Large Hardcover.

Boards soiled, joints and hinges starting, some pages foxed.

108 pp. French text. Monochrome photogravures throughout. A history of French art and artists. Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (English: National Society of Fine Arts) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the.....

Price: $125.00

Item #2205217 Ingres sa Vie & Son Oeuvre (1780-1867), D'apres des documents inedits...

Lapauze, Henry

Ingres sa Vie & Son Oeuvre (1780-1867), D'apres des documents inedits [Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]

Paris: Imprimerie Georges Petit, 1911. Half-Leather.

Faint stain to bottom corner of a few pages, frontispiece and only a few other plates foxed.

584 pp. 4to. An examination of the life and work of French Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who was known for his portraits. Features hundreds of high quality.....

Price: $100.00

Laux, James M.

In First Gear: The French Automobile Industry to 1914

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Jacket rubbed.

x, 239 pp. James M. Laux's IN FIRST GEAR tells the story of the French automobile industry from its inception until the onset of World War I. During this period France led the world in automobile design.....

Price: $175.00

Item #2289757 Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Including Anecdotes of the Most...

Marmontel, [Jean-Francois]

Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Including Anecdotes of the Most Distinguished Literary and Political Characters Who Appeared in France during the Last Century, in Two Volumes (Historic Memoir Series Number 2) [Jean-Francois Marmontel]

London: H.S. Nichols, 1895. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.

Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Hinges weakening. This copy belonged to the historian Peter Gay - his name appears in blue ink on the verso of each front endpaper.

xxiv, 384; xvi, 352 pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispieces of Marmontel and Voltaire.....

Price: $75.00

Montesquieu; De Dupin; Crevier; Voltaire; Mably; Servan; La Harpe; Etc., Etc,

Oeurvres Completes de Montesquieue [FRENCH TEXT]

Paris: Chez Firmin Didot Freres, 1857. Hard Cover.

Board edges lightly rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on front free endpaper verso.

770 pp. French text. Spine leather, marbled boards and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Montesquieu. "Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January.....

Price: $125.00

Item #2315849 French Sixteenth Century Books, in Two Volumes: Volume I: Abbrege to Holbein,...

Mortimer, Ruth; Hofer, Philip; Jackson, William A.

French Sixteenth Century Books, in Two Volumes: Volume I: Abbrege to Holbein, 1-291; Volume II: Homer to Xenophon, 292-557, Index (Harvard College Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue)

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964. Large Hardcover.

Slipcase repaired. No jacket.

Two large hardcovers in slipcase. "These volumes are the first part of a projected catalogue of the books and manuscripts in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts established in the Harvard Library by.....

Price: $350.00

Item #2327829 Framed Print of NASA Space Shuttle Transported by Jumbo Jet at the Paris Art Show,...

[No Author]

Framed Print of NASA Space Shuttle Transported by Jumbo Jet at the Paris Art Show, Signed by Official NASA Artist Walter S. Taylor

. S.N., 1983. Taylor, Walter S. Print.

30 x 23 inches outside to outside. Gold frame, light blue matting, includes poems and sketches beneath the image. Signed by official NASA artist Walter S. Taylor, who painted the image from a jet during the Paris Air Show.

Price: $750.00

Item #2291994 Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution....

Paine, Thomas

Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [with] Rights of Man: Part Second. Combining Principle and Practice.

London: Published for D. Jordan, Piccadilly, 1792. Ninth Edition. Hard Cover.

Ninth edition, printed in the same year as part two's original release, and just a year after the first appearance of part one. ESTC T5876 and N13105. Howes P31 and P32. Rebound in grey paper-covered boards with paper spine.....

Price: $1,500.00

Item #2329336 The Works of Parkman, in Twelve Volumes: Pioneers of France in the New World; The...

Parkman, Francis

The Works of Parkman, in Twelve Volumes: Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America; La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Regime in Canada; Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV; A Half-Century of Conflict, Volume I; A Half-Century of Conflict, Volume II; Montcalm and Wolfe, Volume I; Montcalm and Wolfe, Volume II; The Conspiracy of Pontiac, Volume I; The Conspiracy of Pontiac, Volume II; The Oregon Trail (The Pocket Parkman)

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1897. Full-Leather.

Some volumes: Some loss to spine head, edges and leather rubbed.

Twelve volume set: Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America; La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Regime in Canada; Frontenac and New.....

Price: $75.00

Poincare, Raymond; Arthur, George; The Duke of Northumberland

The Memoirs of Raymond Poincare, in Four Volumes: 1912; 1913 to 1914; 1914; 1915

New York: AMS Press, 1975. Reissue. Hard Cover.

xii, 371, [5]; viii, 333, [3]; viii, [2], 319, [7]; xi, [1], 343, [5] pp. 1975 reissue of the 1925 original. A biography by the French statesman who served as Prime Minister and President. This work covers his time patching up Russian.....

Price: $50.00

Item #2327719 The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, in Three Volumes: Volume I: Salerno,...

Rashdall, Hastings; Powicke, F.M. Emden, A.B.

The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, in Three Volumes: Volume I: Salerno, Bologna, Paris; Volume II: Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Scotland; Volume III: English Universities, Student Life

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Reissue. Hard Cover.

1997 reissue of 1936 edition. All volumes: Minor general wear to jacket; top page ridge lightly foxed.

Three volume set. Edited by F.M. Powicke and A.B. Emden. Between winning the Chancellor's Prize at Oxford with this "essay" on medieval universities and.....

Price: $95.00

Item #2330112 Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy: Human Agency and the Making of Revolution...

Shakibi, Zhand

Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy: Human Agency and the Making of Revolution in France, Russia, and Iran (International Library of Historical Studies, No. 42)

London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. No jacket.

viii, 287 pp. What caused revolution among the last major monarchies of the modern period? Why were Louis XVI, Nicholas II and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi all overthrown and was this the result of their historical background or.....

Price: $50.00