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Photos of 124 ornate dance card cases from the 18th century

FRANCK, Bernard. Collection de 124 carnets de bal du XVIIIe siècle formée par M. Bernard Franck a Paris de l'année 1875 au 23 avril 1902.
Paris, Gerschel, Photographe, 1902. Large 4to (32.5 x 29 cm). With one full-page (27.5 x 23 cm) and 248 mounted carbon print photographs (ca. 8.5-9 x 4.5-5.5 cm) on 63 leaves of thick hinged card board, and 4 preliminary letterpress text pages printed in red and black. Original dark green half morocco, with title in gold on front board and spine, gilt edges. Full description
€ 1,500
Bibliography & Biography France Music, Theatre & Dance Photography
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Chronique scandaleuse of Henry III and the French court in the 16th century with a fake imprint,
published by Jean Elzevier in Leiden

[FRENCH COURT]. Recueil de diverses pièces, servans à lhistoire de Henry III Roy de France wet de Pologne dont les tiltres se trouvent en la page suivante.
Cologne [= Leiden?] Pierre du Marteau [= Jean Elzevier?], 1662. 12mo. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco in 17th-century style, each board with the coat-of-arms of Henri III in the centre (the azure represented by black), in a frame of double fillets with corner pieces, gold-tooled spine with the monogram of Henry III in the compartments, gilt edges. 468 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Caricature & Satire France
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French-Dutch terms for the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war in 1673

[FRENCH-DUTCH WAR - FRANÇOIS OF MONTMORENCY & WILLIAM ADRIAAN II OF HORNE]. Conditien ende articulen, van het Quartier Generael, aengaende het wisselen ende rantçoeneren der gevangens, over een gekomen ende gheslooten tusschen den Heere Hertogh van Luxemburgh ... ende den Heere Grave van Hornes ...
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1673. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Modern wrappers. 8 pp. Full description
€ 275
France Law & Politics Military History (17th Century)
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Highly detailed and very rare issues of annual periodicals on French Polynesia,
mainly concerning Tahiti and Moorea

[FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'année commune 1863.
Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, August 1863. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. With two original photographs in the 1863 edition, both reproducing maps, one showing the islands Tahiti and Moorea and the other showing archipels which were then under French protectorate. With: Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'an 1864 (title on the front wrapper: Annuaire de Taïti pour 1864).Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, October 1864.
Original publisher's printed wrappers. VIII, 372; [4], LX, 126, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Almanacs France Pacific Islands
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Splendid manuscript on the state, condition and organization of the French Royal navy in 1732,
from the library of Henri Beraldi

[FRENCH ROYAL NAVY]. [Binding title:] Abregé de la marine du Roy 1732.
[Paris?, 1732]. 13.5×19 cm. Manuscript in brown-black, red and blue ink on vellum, some of the lettering and borders gilt. With a beautiful frontispiece painting in coloured gouaches (14×9.5 cm) pasted on the page facing the opening of the text, showing a small warship at a shipyard in a small harbour being repaired by workmen. Contemporary red morocco, gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled fillets on boards and board edges, richly gold-tooled frame, gilt edges. Frontispiece plus [2], 26 ll., including 2 double and 1 larger folding. Full description
€ 95,000
Bindings Calligraphy Canada & Greenland Drawings & Watercolours France Manuscripts & Documents Military History (18th Century) North America Ships & Shipbuilding West Indies
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French commerce via Egypt and the Red Sea before the opening of the Suez Canal

FROMENT, Dominique. Du commerce des Europeens avec les Indes, par la Mer Rouge et par l'Egypte.
Paris, Dugour et Durant, an VII [= 1799]. 8vo. With a very large, folding map showing the fastest route from France to India (via the Mediterranean, Egypt, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean), 7 folding tables, and a woodcut illustration at the head of the first chapter. Contemporary dark blue paper wrappers, protected by a semi-opaque coated paper dust jacket. [2], XIV, 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
East Africa Economic History & Trade France India & Sri Lanka North Africa & Egypt
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1565/66 pilgrimage to the Middle East, with author's portrait, coat of arms and 6 illustration plates

FÜRER VON HAIMENDORF, Christoph. Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palaestinae, Syriae, aliarumque regionum orientalium.
Nuremberg, Abraham Wagenmann, 1621 (colophon: Nuremberg, printed by Abraham Wagenmann, 1620). Small 4to. With finely engraved full-page portrait of the author by Peter Isselberg, full-page engraved Fürer von Haimendorf coat of arms, 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 118, [114] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Charts & Maps Church History & Missions City Plans, Topography & Views Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus North Africa & Egypt Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East
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