London: Osprey, 1994. McBride, Angus. Reprint. Soft Cover.
Reprint. Minor general wear.
40 pp. The succession of the French Duke of Anjou to the Spanish throne in 1700 provoked the formation of a Grand Alliance to thwart the king's expansionist ambitions. Led by the Duke of Marlborough, the army of.....
New York: Hurst & Co. Hard Cover.
Edges rubbed with corners slightly exposed, endpapers foxed, pages toned.
xi, [12]-315 pp. Engraved illustrations (including views of Notre Dame and The Louvre), ads for Sohmer pianofortes and Crosby's Vitalized Phos-phites follow text. A firsthand study of Parisian culture based on two separate.....
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Paris: Cercle d'Art, 1958. Large Hardcover.
Boards lightly faded.
257 pp. French text. A history of the art from the Hermitage Museum with black-and-white illustrations and tipped in color plates.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1916. Hard Cover.
Front joint base cloth torn, boards soiled, pages toned.
256 pp. Blue boards with gilt titles. Illustration of ship on spine and canon on front board, all edges gilt. French text. 153 gravure illustrations. A history of modern warfare through the middle.....
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.....
Paris: Le Livre Chez Vous, 2011. Large Hardcover.
Slipcase corners a bit bruised, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
528 pp. French text. Hundreds of color illustrations, providing a detailed account of the uniforms and heraldry of the French cavalry during the First.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983. Gibb, Ann W. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine faded, front jacket flap price-clipped. Top page ridge foxed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper and on half-title page.
ix, 403 pp. Illustrated by Ann W. Gibb. Presents more than three hundred recipes.....
Italy: Flammarion, 2002. First English Language Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition in English. Light smudge on rear jacket panel.
149 pp. Edith Wharton's love affair with the French Riviera began in 1919, and continued to the end of her days. She found there a microcosm of the sort of society.....
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine toned, ink name, general wear.
xx, 400 pp. With 16 illustrations in photogravure Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (baptized Nov. 28, 1635, Niort, Poitou, France—died April 15, 1719, Saint-Cyr) second wife (from either.....
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.....
Yorkshire / Philadelphia: Frontline Books / Pen & Sword Books LImited, 2024. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
vii, 205 pp. Offers a comprehensive study of the uniforms and evolution of Napoleon's cuirassiers and carabiniers, utilizing extensive archival.....
Yorkshire / Philadelphia: Frontline Books / Pen & Sword Books LImited, 2023. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
x, 246 pp. A definitive guide to the dress, weapons and accruements of the the 17 regiments of hussars and.....
Saint Didier de Charpey: Editions Quatuor, 2007. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Not eligible for international shipping. Limited edition, #197 of 600 copies, hand-numbered on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase repaired at seams by previous owner, minor blemishes to spines.
474; 213 pp. French text. A collection of 450 detailed.....
Mexico: Artes de Mexico, 1998. Large Hardcover.
Minor wear along board edges.
93 pp. Spanish and French dual-text. En el siglo xix, un enigmatico aristocrata frances viajo de Canada al Caribe, pasando por Mexico y Estados Unidos. Los esplendidos paisajes que vio quedaron plasmados en las acuarelas y los dibujos.....
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New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1890. Hard Cover.
U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate and a gift note from his wife on front endpapers, boards lightly rubbed.
207 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and fleur-de-lis decoration, engraved frontispiece portrait of Mademoiselle de Corday (also.....
New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1929. Trugo, Lui. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Confusingly numbered 316 of 600 opposite title page, and 1216 of 1500 on copyright page - the English and American editions were 600 and 900, so we assume this was a printer's error caused by the production.....
Great Britain: Military Illustrated, 2000. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Address label on front free endpaper.
144 pp. "Although this new volume in Military Illustrated's "Classic Soldiers" series emphasizes the Napoleonic Wars, the author also covers the precursors of the Rifles and their distinguished service down to the present.....
New York: Bonanza Books, 1984. Hard Cover.
Binding repaired, top edge of jacket previously mended with tape, sticker on front jacket flap, light stain along bottom edge, edges lightly foxed.
884 pp. He was the "King of Chefs and Chef of Kings," doyen of haute cuisine, one of the founders.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Hard Cover.
An exceptional copy.
xxvi, 263 pp. At the end of World War II, France discarded not only the Vichy regime but also the austere ideology behind it. Under the veneer of a conservative vision of family characterized by the traditional structure of.....
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1977. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor tears, jacket lightly stained.
x, 221 pp. Paul Martin (April 16, 1864– July 7, 1944) was a French-born British photographer who pioneered both street and night photography. Martin's strong talent in drawing.....
Osceola, Wisconsin: Osprey Publishing, 2008. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover.
2nd printing. Light wear along edges.
96 pp. Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France, yet force of numbers, superior leadership and the patriotic fervour of France's citizen-soldiers not only defeated each in turn, but closed the era of.....
New York: Osprey, 2010. Dennis, Peter. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
64 pp. Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Throughout the first.....
New York: Osprey, 2009. Noon, Steve. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Light edge wear.
64 pp. Immortalized in literature through such characters as C. S. Forester's 'Horatio Hornblower' and Patrick O'Brian's 'Jack Aubrey', the officers and midshipmen of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary (1792-1802) and Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2001. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Spine lightly creased, pencil marginalia throughout.
xiv, 557 pp. The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led.....
London: Lambert & Co. Hard Cover.
Binder's copy. Lacks spine, prelims, and title/copyright page, stained.
110, 5 pp. Memoirs of a French soldier who gained renown for hunting lions and his general skill with firearms.