BICKNELL, ANNA L.

The Story of Marie Antoinette

London, Fisher Unwin. 1897, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Portrait of Marie Antoinette to frontispiece and 27 other illustrations. Very decorative gilt designs and titles to front, back and to spine on tan cloth boards which are very bright with some wear to spine side and head and tail. Internally there is a neat inscription to front endpaper dated Christmas 1897, a booksellers small label to pastedown, age darkened endpapers with fore and lower edges uncut. An excellent detailed biography by the American Victorian biographer. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS A1C. Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000091

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution

BUCKLEY, ERIC REDE

The Prisoner of Vincennes - the Early Life of Mirabeau; Spendthrift, Profligate and Prisoner

London, H. F. & G. Witherby. 1930, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black title to spine on green cloth boards which have a few minor marks and some wear to head of spine. Internally there is a small neat signature to front endpaper and some light foxing to closed edges and early and later pages. Portrait of Mirabeau to frontispiece and 2 other portraits. A Good + copy. A fascinating biography of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau - the French writer, orator and statesman. C3C. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000028

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau

CHAMIER, J. DANIEL

The Dubious Tale of the Diamond Necklace

London, Edward Arnold. 1939, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title to spine on blue cloth boards which have fading to spine with small mark to front and a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is a neat signature to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Good + copy. 294 pages. Exact representation of the necklace and 7 portraits. The author is the pseudonym of Barbara Chamier. A fascinating account of the necklace mystery. 4. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000092

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the Diamond Necklace, Jeanne de Lamotte, Louis de Rohan,

ADAMS, CHRISTINE AND CENSER, JACK R. AND GRAHAM, LISA JANE

Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France

Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997. (ISBN: 027101637X). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good + clean and unmarked copy which has a crease to front and back covers. viii + 214 pages. The book brings together 8 essays that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in 18th century France. Divided into 3 sections, the chapters map out current research paths in social, cultural and political history, and demonstrate a marked interest in the lives of ordinary French people of the time. Together, the essays show the many ways that the Old Regime and the Revolutionary Era were linked despite the dramatic events of 1789. 24. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008450

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Social History, Political History, Ancien Regime, 18th Century France 027101637x

FITTON, MARY

The Faithful Servant - Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan

London, Oldbourne. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on light blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked. Portrait of Madame Campan to frontispiece from a pastel by J. Boze 1786. 254 pages. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has some wear and is price clipped. Jeanne Louise Genet, Madame Campan was first chamberwoman and a faithful defender of Marie Antoinette. B2C. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000078

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, Jeanne Louise Genet, Madam Campan

FLEISCHMANN, HECTOR

Robespierre and the Women He Loved

London, John Long. 1913, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth boards are clean and unmarked with just a touch of very light wear to head of spine. Internally there is age darkening of endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. Authorised translation from the French by Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport. 315 pages. Photogravure portrait of Robespierre to frontispiece and 19 other portraits. C3C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000017

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Cecile Renault, Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe, Mis J. Theeman Stephen

FURNEAUX, RUPERT

The Bourbon Tragedy

London, George Allen and Unwin. 1968, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Pictorial dustjacket is complete and plastic protected with a little creasing and a touch of wear to one edge. Portrait of Louis XVI by Ducreux to frontispiece and 10 other illustrations. An excellent account of the tragic story and fate of the Bourbon family and of the mystery surrounding the fate of Louis Charles, who officially died on June 8,1795, but it was later claimed that the boy who actually died was a dying dumb boy who had been substituted. A1E. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000035

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Prince Louis Charles

GEER, WALTER

The French Revolution a Historical Sketch

New York, Brentanos. 1922, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt crest and gilt titles and fleur de lys decoration on red cloth boards. A little wear to top of spine and a few minor marks to boards and dulling to spine. Internally clean, tight and unmarked with one previously unopened page badly opened but not affecting the text. Fore and lower edges uncut.15 Illustrations, 2 Maps and 4 Plans. xx and 413 pages. An interesting and well written work by an accomplished author on French history covering the period 1715 - 1799. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1C. Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000013

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution. Bonaparte, Bastille

HEARSEY, JOHN E. N.

Marie Antoinette

Geneva, Heron Collectors Edition. 1969. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold decoration and motifs with cream and gold diamond pattern motif to front board on green leatherette boards. Green and gold decorated endpapers. Historical appendix. Yellow page marker bound in. 30 illustrations. Uniform with Women Who Made History Series. 14. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000774

Catalogue: French Revolution

STAEL-HOLSTEIN, BARONESS DE

Ten Years' Exile or Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of Baroness de Stael-Holstein Written by Herself During the Years 1810,1811,1812 and 1813

Sussex, Centaur Press. 1968, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press, First published by her son from the original manuscript in 1812 this new edition is introduced by Margaret Crosland. Thick dust wrapper price clipped. Gilt title on white cameo to spine on black boards. Madame De Stael's memoirs, Ten Years Exile, have not been available in English since their simultaneous publication in London and Paris in 1821 four years after her death. A classic account of the period of French history which includes the intriguing analysis of Napoleon's psychological make-up in excellent condition. D4D. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000076

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Memoirs, Napoleon

MANCERON, CLAUDE

The Men of Liberty - Europe on the Eve of the French Revolution 1774-1778

London, Eyre Methuen. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0413383008). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. Translated by Patricia Wolf. An enthralling panoramic evocation of the last days of Louis XV and the early years of Louis XVI by the French historian. The past is re-created in hundreds of incidents, anecdotes and images, matching painstaking research with the verve of a novelist, he breathes new life into the major events. Illustrated throughout with portraits of the numerous characters depicted. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.13 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 23. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000039

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution 0413383008

SHEARING, JOSEPH

The Angel of the Assassination - Marie-Charlotte de Corday D'Armont, Jean Paul Marat, Jean-Adam Lux - a Study of Three Disciples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

London, William Heinemann. 1935, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Purple cloth boards with gilt title to spine which is sunned also sun faded to front top and to back but little discernible wear. Internally there is some light foxing to closed edges and to some early and later pages but generally a clean, tight and unmarked copy. xii + 336 pages. Illustration of the assassination of Marat to frontispiece and 3 other illustrations. C3C. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000026

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution

SOREL, ALBERT

Madame de Stael

London, T. Fisher Unwin. 1892, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Laugier. Gilt title with light blue decoration on embossed dark blue cloth boards which have some small marks to front board and one corner a little bumped. Internally very clean and tight with dust marking to top edge. A Good+ copy. ix and 262 pages An excellent early biography of the noted De Stael which shows her influence in politics, history and literature. Preface by Jusserand. Photogravure engraving of De Stael by Laugier after Gerard to frontispiece tissue protected. C3B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000237

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Corinne, Delphine, Biography Laugier

TALLENTYRE, S. G.

The Life of Mirabeau

London, Smith , Elder. 1908, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on green cloth boards which are unmarked with a touch of wear to corner tips and bumping to lower front corner. Internally there is a contemporary name and year to front pastedown, light foxing to closed edges and to the margins of some pages else a clean tight copy. Photogravure portrait to frontispiece and 4 other illustrations. One of the better biographies. C3C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000318

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: Gabriel-Honore de Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau , French Revolution

TRENCK, FREDERICK FRIHERR VON DER

The Strange Adventures of Frederick Baron Trenck

London, Philip Allan. 1927, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black title on red cloth boards which have fading to spine and a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally ther is lih foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. A Good + copy. Edited by Philip Murray. vii + 279 pages. 6 illustrations. The adventures of the Baron who having lived through the Revolution was denounced as an Austrian spy and guillotined in 1794. Accused by Thomas Carlyle as a liar and a ruffian. A most fascinating biography. C3C. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000397

Catalogue: French Revolution

Keywords: French Revolution, Frederich the Great, Empress Maria Theresa, Emperor Josef II