Pierre a dolphe cheruel (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Paris: Librairie de L Hachette et Cie, 1865, First Edition. Half red morocco leather with gilt titles to red labels, gilt decorated spines, marbled paper covered boards, marbled page edges and end papers. Pagination: x, 660pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates; from the Rothschild library. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall (22.3cm). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles to red labels, gilt decorated bands, minor marks. Joints very good condition gently rubbed and worn. Corners good condition gently bumped and worn. Boards very good condition marbled paper covered boards. Page edges good condition all edges marbled, top edge slightly darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound and strong. Paste downs very good condition marbled paper. End papers good condition marbled paper, subsequently tanned and foxed. Title good condition tanned with foxing. Pages good condition tanned, good and tightly bound, foxing throughout. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1865 Binding: Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Paris: Librairie de L Hachette et Cie, 1858, First Edition. Half red morocco leather with gilt titles to red labels, gilt decorated spines, marbled paper covered boards, marbled page edges and end papers. Pagination: viii, 405pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates; from the Rothschild library. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall (22.3cm). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles to red labels, gilt decorated bands, minor marks. Joints very good condition gently rubbed and worn. Corners good condition gently bumped and worn. Boards very good condition marbled paper covered boards. Page edges good condition all edges marbled, top edge slightly darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound and strong. Paste downs very good condition marbled paper. End papers good condition marbled paper, subsequently tanned and foxed. Title good condition tanned with foxing. Pages good condition tanned, good and tightly bound, foxing throughout. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1862 Binding: Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Paris: Charpentier, 1862, First Edition. Two volumes, in half red morocco leather with gilt titles to red labels, gilt decorated spines, marbled paper covered boards, marbled page edges and end papers. Pagination: Vol I xv, 519pp; Vol II 563pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates; from the Rothschild library. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall (22.3cm). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles to red labels, gilt decorated bands, minor marks. Joints very good condition gently rubbed and worn. Corners good condition gently bumped and worn. Boards very good condition marbled paper covered boards. Page edges good condition all edges marbled, top edge slightly darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound and strong. Paste downs very good condition marbled paper. End papers good condition marbled paper, subsequently tanned and foxed. Title good condition tanned with foxing. Pages good condition tanned, good and tightly bound, foxing throughout. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1862 Binding: Hardback. …

Hardcover. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xv, 519; 1 p.l., 563. contemporary half calf, gilt backs (joints cracked). First Edition. A major biography of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis of Belle-Isle [1615-1680], who was superintendent of finances from 1652 to 1661. Although this was a period of financial difficulty for France, Fouquet managed to lavish some eighteen million francs on his own palace of Vaux, which is said to have surpassed even the royal residence of Fontainebleau. Of him Voltaire remarked "Never was a dissipator of the royal finances more noble and generous." He soon lost favour with the King, who had him arrested, and after a three-year trial, he was sentenced to imprisonment for life.…