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ALEXIS, Willibald. (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich HÄRING). Reistogten in het zuiden van Frankrijk; waarin karakterschilderingen over de oude en hedendaagsche Franschen. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Amsterdam, J.C. van Kesteren, 1829.Contemporary half calf (spine ends damaged). With engraved title-page after H.P. Oosterhuis by W.H. Hoogkamer. XII,224 pp. Dutch translation of Wanderungen im Süden. Berlin 1828. - Travels in the south of France; in which character paintings about the old and contemporary French. - (Foxed). Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 8365 ]

€ 125,00

BAEDEKER, Karl. Paris und Umgebungen. Handbuch für Reisende. 14te Auflage. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker,1896.Sm.8vo. Cloth. With 14 maps, and 27 plans, partly folding. XXXVI,388. Inserted the street-index with plans. [Boeknr.: 13116 ]

€ 25,00

BARKER, Edward Harrison. Wanderings by southern waters. Eastern Aquitaine. London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1893.Original red cloth (soiled). With frontispiece, 2 illustrations and 4 plates. 403 pp. Wanderings in Aquitaine, in south-western France. [Boeknr.: 8669 ]

€ 40,00

BATTLE AT LA HOGUE. The battle at La Hogue. De zeeslag bij Kaap La Hogue, 1692. Neuhaus,1837.Steelengraving after Woollett by G. Döbler. Ca 42,5 x 59 cm. Magnificent engraving of the sea battle of the combined Anglo-Dutch fleets under Russel and Almonde on the French under Tourville at the Battle of Cape la Hogue, 29 May - 3 June 1692. Depicted is the moment Tourville steps from one boat into another and is seized by an Englishman whose hand he will cut off with his sword. With at the right and central French ships. The French lost their best and biggest ships i.a the famous Soleil Royal. It is after a painting by B. West. Without caption. - Fine.Muller, Historieplaten, 2858; Atlas van Stolk 2883. [Boeknr.: 13936 ]

€ 450,00

BEATIS, Antonio de. The travel journal of Antonio de Beatis. Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France and Italy, 1517-1518. Translated from the Italian by J.R. Hale and J.M.A. Lindon. Edited by J.R. Hale. London, 1979. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With map and 2 illustrations. XII,206 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 150. - Travel-account of the leisurely tour by Luigi of Aragon, one of the most wealthy, cultivated and well-connected of Italian cardinals. [Boeknr.: 17226 ]

€ 30,00

BOUCHAIN. Plan du siege de Bouchain. Bruxelles, Eugene Henry Fricx, 1711.Broadsheet, depicting an engraved plan by Harrewyn, coloured by hand, wih letterpress below, mounted on linen. Ca. 54 x 50 cm. Bouchain is a commune in northern France. It lies halfway between Cambrai and Valenciennes.The Siege of Bouchain (9 August - 12 September 1711) was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession, and the last major victory of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Marlborough broke through the French defensive lines and took Bouchain after a siege of 34 days. Its capture left Cambrai the only French-held fortress between the allied army and Paris. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 34184 ]

€ 450,00

CAILLETTE DE L'HERVILLIERS, Edmond. Compiègne sa forèt ses alentours. Etudes & souvenirs historiques & archéologiques suivi de documents relatifs a la vie du B. Simon, Comte de Crespy et d'Amiens. Compiègne, Paris, 1869.8vo. Original printed wrappers (sl. soiled), uncut. 508,96 pp. [Boeknr.: 10813 ]

€ 60,00

CALONNE, Charles Alexandre de. Requête au roi. - Eclaircissemens et pieces justificatives; Réponse de M. de Calonne a l' écrit de M. Necker, publiée en Avril 1787; contenant l'examen des comptes de la situation des finances, rendus en 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 & 1787: avec des observations sur les résultats de l'assembée des notables. - Pieces justificatives ou accessoires. London, T. Spilsbury, 1787-1788. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed with green title-label. 137,(3),66; 8,215,(3),65,(1),36 pp. Charles Alexandre, vicomte de Calonne (1734 - 1802) was called in to take control of France's financial affairs during the terrible crisis which preceded the Revolution. His audacious plan of reform might have succeeded had the king been wholeheartedly behind him. He was finally exiled in 1787 and the present work is a defence of his conduct while in office, written after he had fled to England, and published in London.Kress B-1174; Goldsmith's 13433. [Boeknr.: 13537 ]

€ 150,00

CLAPARDèDE, Arthur de. L'ile de Porquerolles (Iles d'Hyères). (La France). Neuchatel, 1891.Original printed wrappers. 16 pp. - (Bull. de la Société Neuchâteloise de Géographie). [Boeknr.: 10471 ]

€ 30,00

CONTE, Louis de. Personal recollections of Joan of Arc. Freely translated .. from the original unpublished manuscript in the National Archives of France by Jean François Alden. Edited by Mark Twain. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1896.2 volumea. Sm.8vo. Original decorated red cloth. 279; 271 pp. Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz edition. - Joan of Arc (ca. 1412 - 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. [Boeknr.: 37359 ]

€ 95,00

DAUDET, Alphonse. Tartarin sur les Alpes. Nouveaux exploits du héros Tarasconnais. Paris, C. Marpon & E. Flammarion, 1886.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half morocco (spine discoloured). With many illustrations after Aranda, de Beaumont, Montenard, de Myrbach, and Rossi. (6),365,(4) pp. First published in 1885. - Novel about Tartarin, a middle-aged hunter living in the town of Tarascon situated at the extreme west of the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. He has many adventures during his travels to the Alps. [Boeknr.: 36718 ]

€ 85,00

DELORME, Marie. Les filles du clown (Tante Dorothéee). Paris, Armand Colin et Cie, 1898.Sm.8vo. Original decorated red cloth, lettered in gilt, a.e.g. With illustrations by Ch. Weisser. 294,(1) pp. Bibliothéque du petit français. - Novel about the circus. [Boeknr.: 37355 ]

€ 35,00

(DORIS DE BOURGES, Charles). Amours secrettes des quatre frères de Napoleon, par M. le baron de B... 2me édition. Paris, Germain Mathiot, 1816.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 2 engraved frontispieces. 264; 258 pp. [Boeknr.: 13176 ]

€ 95,00

DUFRENOY. Cabinet du petit-naturaliste. 3me édition. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1818.16mo. Contemporary half calf (spine ends skilfully restored). With engraved frontispiece and title-page, and 12 engraved plates. VI,235 pp. Fine illustrated book on natural history, incuding one plate of a sperm whale. Written by Adélaïde Gillette Billet Dufrénoy (1765-1825), a French poet and painter from Brittany. - (Age-browned). [Boeknr.: 37558 ]

€ 125,00

DUMOURIEZ (Charles-François Du Périer) Mémoires. Ecrits par lui-même. Francfort et Leipzig, 1794.2 parts in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. XXXII,150; 252 pp. Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez (1739 - 1823) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. He shared the victory at Valmy with General François Christophe Kellermann, but later deserted the Revolutionary Army, and became a royalist intriguer during the reign of Napoleon as well as an adviser to the British government. Dumouriez is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 3. [Boeknr.: 13291 ]

€ 125,00

EBELING, E. Straatsburg in 1681. Een geschiedkundig verhaal uit de dagen van de afscheuring dezer stad van het Duitsche Rijk, en hare bemachtiging door Lodewijk XIV; voor de rijpere jeugd. Gouda, G.B. van Goor Zonen, 1873.Original embossed red cloth, spine gilt. With 4 coloured plates by P.W.M. Trap. 232 pp. Juvenile. Straatsburg was joined to France in 1681. [Boeknr.: 33131 ]

€ 35,00

EVENING READING. MUSEE DES FAMILLES. LECTURES DU SOIR. Tome 34. Paris, Bureaux de l'Administration, 1866-1867.8vo. Contemporary half red morocco. With numerous woodengravings and 10 coloured fashion-plates. 380;94 pp. (p. 225 with tear). An illustrated French literary magazine that was published in Paris from 1833 to 1900. [Boeknr.: 33903 ]

€ 45,00

FLORIAN, J.P. Clarisse. Fables de Florian. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Remoissenet, 1806.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half green calf, spines lettered in gilt. With engraved portrait and 100 engraved plates. IV,80; 82 pp. First published in 1792. - Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 - 1794) was a French poet, novelist and fabulist, chiefly known as the author of pretty fables. The fine engraved plates follow the fables of Aesop and those of Faërne. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37192 ]

€ 950,00

FOLIN, Marquis de. Pêches et chasses zoologiques. Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1893.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf. With 117 woodengravings. 332 pp. First edition. - Léopold de Folin (1817 - 1896) was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder of the collections which were to become the Musée de la mer in Biarritz, France.With Henri Milne-Edwards's son Alphonse, de Folin carried out this survey of the Gulf of Gascony. [Boeknr.: 36707 ]

€ 75,00

FOSSE, H. Friedli le peintre de chats. Nouvelle pour la jeunesse. Imitée de l'Allemand. Toulouse, Société des Livres Religieux, 1883.Sm.8vo. Original decorated red cloth. 138 pp. [Boeknr.: 37343 ]

€ 30,00

FRANCE, Anatole. Oeuvres complètes. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1925 - 1935.4to. 25 volumes + 3 portfolios with Suite des épreuves sur Chine. Original half morocco, marbled boards, spines ribbed, uncut, top edges gilt (spines evenly discoloured brown). With plates and illustrations. One of 1500 numbered copies in Arabic; with the 3 volumes of the extra suites of the illustrations, published under the supervision of H. Barthelemy, bound separately. - The definitive collected edition of Anatole France (1844-1924), a French poet, journalist, and novelist, including all hitherto unpublished texts, edited by Gerard Le Prat. The artists contributing to this edition are Belot, Carlègle, Caillaud, Colin, Dethomas, Dufour, Edy Legrand, Hermann-Paul, Latour, Le Breton, G. Leroux, Saleido, Marty, Mirande, Naudin, Prinet, and Roubille. Contents: Alfred de Vigny, etude. Poesies: Les Poemes dores, Idylles et legendes, Les noces corinthiennes; Jocaste et le chat maigre. Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l'Institut; Les desirs de Jean Servien. Le livre de mon ami; Nos enfants. Balthasar; Thais. L'etui de nacre; La vie littéraire; La rotisserie de la reine Pedauque. Les opinions de Jerome Coignard; Le lys rouge. Le jardin d'Epicure; Le puits de sainte Clarie. Pierre Noziere; Histoire contemporaine: L'orme du mail. Le mannequin d'osier; L'anneau d'amethyste. Monsieur Bergeret a Paris; Clio. Histoire comique. Sur la pierre blanche; Crainquebille. Crainquebille, Le mannequin d'osier, Au petit bonheur; Vie de Jeanne d'Arc; Rabelais. Auguste Comte. Pierre Laffitte; L'ile des pingouins. La comedie de celui qui eÌpousa une femme muette; Les contes de Jacques Tournebroche. Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue; Les dieux ont soif; Le genie Latin. Les poems du souvenir; La revolte des anges; Le petit Pierre. La vie en fleur; Pages d'histoire et de litterature. - A very attractive set. [Boeknr.: 37136 ]

€ 975,00

FRENCH - RUSSIAN DIALOGUES. CHOIX D'ENTRÉTIENS FRANÇAIS ET RUSSES, composés sur le modèle des meilleurs auteurs modernes et arrangés en 150 leçons. 1831. Contemporary half green morocco (spine damaged; 1 hinge broken). VII,315 pp. Rare. - No copy in Worldcat. [Boeknr.: 31726 ]

€ 275,00

GOURGAUD, (Gaspard). Napoléon et la Grande-Armée en Russie, ou examen critique de l'ouvrage de M. le Comte Ph. de Ségur. Bruxelles, H. Tarlier, 1825. Modern cloth (original printed frontwrapper mounted). XI,427 pp. General Gourgaud (1783-1852) was aide-de-camp to Napoleon during the Russian campaigne in 1812. He accompanied Napoleon to Saint Helena, left the island in 1818. French territory being forbidden to him, he settled in England. Finally in March 1821, authorized to return to France, he devoted himself to writing various works, the army having removed him from his ranks for "absence without authorization". His criticism of Ségur's examination earned him a duel with the latter, whom he injured. - (Age-browned).Catalogue Russica I, p.476. [Boeknr.: 32795 ]

€ 95,00

GRÉTRY, André. Par permission. Les comediens français donneront aujour'hui dimanche 13 Mai 1787. Abonnement généralement suspendu, une répresentation de La caravanne du Caire, grand opera en trois actes, orné des changemens de décorations & de danses, suivi de la bataille des Arrabes. (No pl.), 1787.Broadsheet. Ca. 16 x 20,5 cm. Announcement of La Caravane du Caire an opera or opéra-ballet in three acts by André Grétry, set to a libretto by Étienne Morel de Chédeville. Tradition has it that either the libretto was partially written, or the idea of it was allegedly suggested by the Count of Provence, who would go down in history as Louis XVIII of France.The opera was first performed at the Palace of Fontainebleau on 30 October 1783. [Boeknr.: 37534 ]

€ 45,00

JONG, Cornelis de. Reize in en door het Kanaal, in de jaren 1785 en 1786. Haarlem, Fr. Bohn, 1808.Later half cloth. With folding view of the harbour of Bordeaux and folding plate depicting a naval battle between Commodore Charles Fielding and rear-admiral Lodewijk van Bylandt, after G. Groenewegen by Vinkeles and Vrijdag. XVI,396 pp. First edition. - Voyage through the Channel in 1785 and 1786 in the Dutch brigantine Den Beschutter. The affair of Fielding and Bylandt was a brief naval engagement off the Isle of Wight on 31 December 1779 between a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Charles Fielding, and a naval squadron of the Dutch Republic, commanded by rear-admiral Lodewijk van Bylandt, escorting a Dutch convoy. The British seized the Dutch merchantmen and conducted them as prizes to Portsmouth, followed by the Dutch squadron. - (Waterstained).Tiele 556; Cat. NHSM I, p.121; Roeper & Wildeman, Reizen op papier, p. 104. [Boeknr.: 12863 ]

€ 195,00

JOUY, Victor Joseph Etienne de. L'hermite de la Guiane, ou observations sur les moeurs et les usages Parisiens au commencement du XIXe siècle. 7me édition. Bruxelles, A. Wahlen et Comp., 1822.3 volumes in 2. Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf (damaged). With 3 engraved frontispieces and 3 other engraved plates. IV,299; 277; 253 pp. Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy (1764 - 1846), received at the age of eighteen a commission in the army, and sailed for South America in the company of the governor of Guiana. He abandoned his early military career for a successful literary one. From 1811 to 1814 de Jouy published in the weekly Gazette de France a series of satirical sketches of Parisian life, later collected under the title of L'Hermite de la Chaussee d'Antin, which was warmly received and made his name as a journalistCf. Sabin 36769. [Boeknr.: 12758 ]

€ 95,00

KAMPEN, Nicolaas Godfried van & Klaas SIJBRANDI. De valleijen der Waldenzen, geschied- en aardrijkskundig geschilderd. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, (1840).4to. Original half red cloth. With steelengraved title-page after W.H. Bartlett by R. Wallis, folding map and 70 steelengraved plates after W.H. Bartlett, J.D. Harding by G. Richardson, J.T. Willmore, J.C. Bentley. H. Adlard, R. Wallis, S. Fisher, a.o.VI,206,(2) pp. The valleys of Piedmont: Turin, Pignerol, Luzerne, St. Jean, La Tour, Castelluzzo, Angrogna, Rora, St Martin, Clusone, Perosa, Pragelas, Dauphiné and Ban de la Roche. - (Light age-browned). [Boeknr.: 34090 ]

€ 275,00

KELLER, Gerard. Bergen en dalen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (1878).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),215 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on cities in the mountains of Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Norway and Switzerland. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32908 ]

€ 75,00

KELLER, Gerard. Wouden, kusten en rotsen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (ca. 1880).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),216 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on North-Italy, France, Norway, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Gibraltar. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32910 ]

€ 75,00

LACROIX, Paul. XVIIme siècle. Institutions usages et costumes. France 1590-1700. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1880.8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine and boards richly gilt, a.e.g. With 16 chromolithographed plates and 300 woodengravings. VIII,580 pp. A very fine copy. - Colas 1704; Lipperheide 1118; Hiler p.518. [Boeknr.: 33117 ]

€ 175,00

LEARY, Lewis Gaston. Andora the hidden republic. Its origin and institutions, and the record of a journey thither. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.Original decorated cloth gilt. With 3 maps and 34 photographic plates. X,(4),191 pp. First edition; title page is embossed 'Presentation Copy' with cover letter from the publisher. - Interesting description of Andorra, a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. [Boeknr.: 36779 ]

€ 75,00

MEYER, Joseph. Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildung und Beschreibung des sehenswerthesten und merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der gantzen Erde. Band 6. Hildburghausen und New York, Bibliographischen Institut, 1839.Oblong 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With steelengraved title-page and 47 steel-engraved views. Fine views of Sweden, Spain, Germany, India, Himalaya, Bombay, Calcutta, Moskow, etc. - (Few blank margins sl. waterstained)Andres p.154. [Boeknr.: 33012 ]

€ 125,00

MEYER, Joseph. Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildung und Beschreibung des sehenswerthesten und merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der gantzen Erde. Redaction & Text von Friedrich Hofmannn. Band 19. Hildburghausen und New York, Bibliographischen Institut, 1857.Oblong 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With steelengraved title-page and 46 (of 48) steel-engraved views. Fine views of Paris, München, Dresden, Mount Jefferson, Mississippi, Missouri, Hudson, New York, Boston, Washington, Cuba, Jerusalem, etc. - (Few blank margins sl. waterstained).Andres p.169. [Boeknr.: 33011 ]

€ 125,00

(MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de). Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'etat. Ouvrage posthume, composé en 1778. Hambourg, 1782.2 volumes in 1. Modern half vellum. XIV,323; 203 pp. First edition. - The French political thinker and statesman Mirabeau (1749-1791) went to the United Provinces, where he lived by writing hack work for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for sedition and abduction, and in May 1777 he was seized by the Dutch police, sent to France and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes. His Lettres de cachet exhibits an accurate knowledge of French constitutional history, skillfully marshaled to demonstrate that the system of lettres de cachet was not only philosophically unjust but constitutionally illegal. - (Small brown stain at top of first 70 pages). [Boeknr.: 11107 ]

€ 295,00

MOSER, Johann Jacob. Vollständiger Bericht von der so berühmt als fatalen Clausula Articuli IV. Pacis Ryswicensis, bestehende theils in einer historischen Erzählung/ wie diese Clausul gegen alle vormalige und öffters wiederhohlte Versicherungen auf die Bahn gebracht und durchgetrungen worden... Franckfurt, Wolffgang Christoph Multsens, 1732.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Modern wrappers. (8),456; 131 pp. The Nine Years' War (1688-97) - often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and the major and minor princes of the Holy Roman Empire. By the terms of the Treaty of Ryswick (1697) Louis XIV retained the whole of Alsace, but he was forced to return Lorraine to its ruler and give up any gains on the right bank of the Rhine. Louis XIV also accepted William III as the rightful King of England, while the Dutch acquired their Barrier fortress system in the Spanish Netherlands to help secure their own borders. - (Waterstained). [Boeknr.: 7673 ]

€ 150,00

OEHLENSCHLÄGER, Adam Gottlieb. Brieven naar huis geschreven op eene reis door Duitschland en Frankrijk, in de jaren 1816 en 1817. Uit het Deensch naar de Hoogduitsche vertaling. Haarlem, Wed. A. Loosjes Pz., 1822.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). With 2 nice engraved title-vignettes by D. Veelwaard. IV,282; 271 pp. First Dutch edition; the German edition Briefe in die Heimath, auf einer Reise durch Deutschland und Frankreich was published in Altona in 1820. - Letters written home by Adam Gottlieb Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) during a journey through Germany and France in 1816-1817. - (Some foxing).Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1180 ]

€ 150,00

PERRAULT, Charles, a.o. Contes de fées tirés de Claude Perrault, D'Aulnoy et Leprince de Beaumont. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1871.Sm.8vo. Original decorated red cloth (hinges damaged but holding), a.e.g. With 62 woodengravings by Bertall, Beaucé, etc. 413 pp. Bibliothèque rose illustrée. - (Foxing). [Boeknr.: 37340 ]

€ 30,00

POTHIER, Robert Joseph. Traité du contrat de vente, selon les regles tant du for de la conscience, que du for extérieur. Nouvelle édition revue & corrigée. Paris, Debure, Orléans, la Veuve Rozeau-Montaut, 1772.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt (dam.). XVI,444; VI,(2),296 pp. Robert Joseph Pothier (1699 - 1772), a French jurist, was made professor of law at the University of Orleans in 1749 . He wrote many learned monographs on French law. [Boeknr.: 7661 ]

€ 95,00

RENNEVILLE, Sophie de. Conversations d'une petite fille avec sa poupée, suivies de l'histoire de la poupéee. 4me édition. Paris, Ledentu, 1829.16mo. Original embossed green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece and 10 engraved illustrations on 5 leaves. 251 pp. First published in Paris in 1817. - Sophie was born the Marquise de Senneterre into French nobility in Normandy, and she took up writing to support her family, which had been financially ruined during the French Revolution. - (Foxed). [Boeknr.: 37358 ]

€ 45,00

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse. Lettres de deux amants. Paris, Garnier Frères, (ca. 1880).Half calf with red and green morocco title label. With woodengraved frontispiece. XX,664 pp. First published in Amsterdam in 1761 Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse. Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes. The impossible love story between Saint-Preux and the noble Julie d'Étanges taking place in a small town at the foot of the Alps.- (Sl. foxed). [Boeknr.: 9420 ]

€ 65,00

SEA-BATTLE AT BEACHY HEAD. Naukeurig verhaal van de laatste batailje ter zee tusschen de Engelse, Hollandse, en Franse vlooten, en 't gene daar ontrent gepasseert is .. met eenige aanmerkingen daar op, en op ten tegenwoordigen staat van de natie. Uyt het Engelsch vertaalt. Rotterdam, Barent Bos, 1690.4to. Modern half cloth. With woodcut printer's device on titlepage. 56 pp. The Battle of Beachy Head (Bataille de Béveziers, in Dutch named Battle of Bevesier) was a naval battle near Beachy Head in southern England, fought on July 10, 1690 as part of the Nine Years' War. The Anglo-Dutch Allied fleet was under the command of the English Admiral Arthur Torrington, the French fleet led by Anne de Tourville. The battle ended in a great French victory over their English and Dutch opponents. The Dutch squadron led by the Zeeland admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jongste was virtually destroyed.Knuttel 13403; Cat. NHSM I, p.437. [Boeknr.: 36241 ]

€ 475,00

SUNDAY SCHOOL LITERATURE. La feuille de l'ecole du dimanche. Vingt-huitième année. (No pl.), 1902.Sm.8vo. Original cloth. With many illustrations. 140 pp. La catastrophe de la Martinique; La mission du Congo; Les crocodiles du Zambèze; La mission aux iles Loyalty; Un petit esclave qui est devenue un grand homme; Les pasteurs martyras a l'ile Sainte-Marguerite; etc. [Boeknr.: 37371 ]

€ 25,00

SUNDAY SCHOOL LITERATURE. La feuille de l'ecole du dimanche. Vingt-septième année. (No pl.), 1901.Sm.8vo. Original cloth. With many illustrations. 128 pp. Les martyrs chrétiens en Chine; Jeanne Hachette; Une chapelle flottante; Nzua, la petite Pahouine; La mission aux iles Marquises; L'église du Saint-Sépulcre a Jérusalem; etc. [Boeknr.: 37372 ]

€ 25,00

VREEDE, G.G. Lettres et négociations de Paul Choart, seigneur de Buzanval, ambassadeur ordinaire de Henri IV en Hollande, et de François d'Aersssen, agent des Provinces-Unies en France. (1598, 1599.) Suivies de quelques pièce diplomatique concernant les années 1593-1596, et 1602-1606. Publiées pour la premiere fois. Leide, S. et J. Luchtmans, 1846.Original printed boards (spine dam.). XVI,479 pp. Correspondance between Paul Choart, seigneur de Buzanval, French envoy in The Hague, and François d'Aersssen, Heer van Sommelsdijk, statesman in France. [Boeknr.: 13573 ]

€ 45,00

WALSH. Explorations en Normandie: Rouen. Rouen, E. le Grand, 1835.Original printed wrappers. VII,592 pp. [Boeknr.: 9774 ]

€ 65,00

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