Author: Celliez, A.
Title: Les reines de France par Mlle A. Celliez. Deuxime dition revue et corrige.
Description: Paris, P.-C. Lehuby, Libraire-diteur, 1851 Large 8vo (27x17 cm). Contemporary black cloth with decoration in romantic style: with gilt and polychrome ornements on covers and spine (tears in first hinge, but still holding strong, sl. rubbings to spine and corners); edges gilt; yellow endpapers (owner's stamp on first endpaper). 778 pp.: (iv), viii (introduction), 764, (i:'un mot sur la lithographie'), (i:blank) pp. With nicely decorated initials for each chapter. With 18, incl. frontisp.) yellow-tinted lithographs by Lemercier after Lonce Rabillon. - The lithographs with bown spots in margins, not affecting the image; text with a few very light spots. - On the whole an acceptable copy. Full-length portraits of Brunhilde - Brunhaut - Frdegonde - Bathilde - Berthe au grand pied - Ogive - Isabelle de Hainaut - Blanche de Castille - Marguerite de Provence - Jeanne de Bourbon - Isabeau de Bavire - Anne de Bretagne - Catherine de Mdicis - Louise de Vaudemont - Marie de Mdicis - Marie Thrse - Marie Leczinska - Marie-Antoinette.. Gewicht/Weight: 1500 grs.

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