881 - 1017 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. sl. foxed. Bindings rubbed; upper joint vol. 1 splitting.
= Camus 1128; Bourgeois/ André 6283: "L'auteur est conseiller du roi, lieutenant particulier en la sénéchaussée, gouvernement et siège présidial de Montpellier. Son ouvrage comprend deux parties. Dans la première sont traitées les matières civiles: dans la seconde, les matières criminelles, les duels, le règlement des maréchaux de France, le commerce, la procédure du conseil".
- Contemp. owner's entry on htitle and last blank; (sl.) waterst. throughout; 2 quires sl. wormholed in inner blank margin; 6 lvs. loose.
= First appearance of the first section of the Code Civil, immediately after issuing of the laws and preceding the official 1804 edition. The first book contains 12 laws and a total of 481 articles w. corresponding commentary, justifications, opinions, rapports and debates. Rare. Cf. Camus p.164; En français dans le texte 210.
- Contents good. Spines worn/ rubbed.
= Report of the negotiations between France and the United Provinces during the War of the Reunions, led by Comte d'Avaux, appointed ambassador of The Hague. Quérard, La France littéraire I, p.137.
= An atlas documenting hundreds of castles, manors and country houses in France with short histories of each building (complex). Parts present: Les deux-sevres (1991), La Charente (1993), La Charente-Maritime (1993), La Vienne (1995), Le Lot (1996).
AND 7 others on similar buildings in France, i.a. C.-L. SALCH (ed.), L'Atlas des chateaux forts en France (Strasbourg, 1977, orig. cl. w. dustwr., sm. folio) and A. MONTOUX, Vieux logis de Touraine. Vol. 5-7 (Chambray-les-Tours, 1982-1987, 3 (of 8) vols., ills., printed in 2100 numb. copies, orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Partly sl. yellowed.
= Contemporary accounts of the 1834 Lyon uprising involving workers in the city's silk industry.
AND 1 other: S. MARITCH, Histoire du Mouvement Social sous le Second Empire à Lyon (Paris, 1930, orig. wr.)
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. Binding (sl.) worn along extremities. = Tiele 1033.
AND 1 other.
- Occas. sl. foxed. A few vols. spine-ends chipped.
- Binding trifle scratched and stained. Otherwise fine.
= Del Bo, Comune di Parigi p.41; cf. Stammhammer II, p.248. Complete set of this political-satirical 'Blanquist' periodical of the Parisian commune, "le journal le plus violent de la Commune" (Lemonnyer, Les journaux de Paris pendant la Commune, p.60), inspired by the idea of a socialist revolution started by a conspiracy against the upper classes. Bound with 3 similar/ related publications: "Le pair du chêne" (no.1), "La mère duchêne" (no.2) and "Le pompiere de Nanterre aux Parisiens".
- Occas. sl. foxed. Joints and spine w. a few sm. (worm)holed. = Camus 982.
AND 3 others similar, i.a. PROCÈS-VERBAL DES SÉANCES DE L'ASSEMBLÉE DE HAUTE-GUIENNE (...) (Villefranche, 1783, modern cl., 4to).
- Occas. trifle foxed.
= Account of June Rebellion or Paris Uprising of 1832. Part of the events inspired Victor Hugo in his Les Misérables.
= Collection of facs. reprints of periodicals, leaflets, almanacs, pamphlets, documents etc. of political/ social importance, published in France between 1848 and 1872.
- Spine and edges worn. = A republican writing by Robespierre bound together with a royalist journal.
AND 5 others in 2 vols., i.a. A. BARRUEL, Question nationale sur l'autorité et sur les droits du peuple dans le gouvernement (Paris, 1792, contemp. calf w. red mor. letterpiece).
- Lacks vol.6. Sl. foxed; one vol. inner hinge split. One vol. half of backwr. torn off and loose; three vols. backstrip dam.
- First title-p. w. erased owner's entry; 2nd title-p. loosening; final text leaf blank outer margin restored.
= Cf. Pohler III, p.750 (ed. 1797). Contains i.a. biographies of French naval heroes.
- Some foxing. Bindings trifle rubbed.
= Contains route descriptions from i.a. Paris to Rome, Paris to Lyon, Paris to Marseille and Marseille to Turin. The author was a French postal inspector.
= I.a. concerning measures regarding quality, distribution and rationing of bread (Lyon) and illegal transport of goods of première nécessité during night time (Paris).
= A fine, well-bound collection. The larger part related to the French Revolution.