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- Lucien en belle humeur, ou Nouveaux Entretiens des Morts. Tome Second
- ISBN: NA Price: $121.76
- Publisher: Amsterdam: Chez Antoine Michiels Date Published: 1694
- Description: [457] pp., engraved frontis., old leather, front cover detached but present, else overall near very good. Volumes Included: 1
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Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 525014
- Oeuvres de Moliere: Nouvelle Edition revue sur les plus anciennes impressions et augmentee des variantes, de notices, de notes, d'un lexique des mots et locution remarquables, d'un portrait, de facsimile, etc. 14 tomes.
- ISBN: NA Price: $571.21
- Publisher: Paris: Hachette et Cie. Date Published: 1873
- Description: 14 volumes, with volumes 1-13 being the main work, and volume 14 being the album of plates); rebound in modern half cloth & paper covered boards (hardcovers), ex library, else text clean & bindings tight. Volumes Included: 13
- Subject: French Literature Theatre Satire Poetry big sets Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 573391
- Histoire de Pierre de Montmaur, professeur royal en langue grecque dans l'Universite de Paris. Par M. de Sallengre. Tome premier.
- ISBN: NA Price: $138.18
- Publisher: La Haye: C. van Lom, P. Gosse & R. Alberts, Date Published: 1715
- Description: Volume 1 only; small octavo, cxxxii, [2], 312 pp., 6 plates (of ?, lacks the pictorial title); light age toning to text with a few spots and disbound with only the back cover of an early leather binding remaining, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature, satire, CTT Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 727077
- Proces-verbal de l'assemblee generale des saints martyrs, confesseurs, anges, cherubins, seraphins, &c. qui a eu lieu en Paradis le 15 novembre 1789. (caption title)
- ISBN: NA Price: $109.90
- Publisher: NP: Date Published: 1789
- Description: 32 pp., first and last leaves soiled at margins, early and late corners dog eared, still very good and untrimmed in self wrappers with a string tie; a satire. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French Revolution, satire, French literature Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 528008
- Recueil general des sotties. Tome premier. (Societe des anciens textes francais)
- ISBN: NA Price: $58.60
- Publisher: Paris: Didot et Cie, Date Published: 1902
- Description: Volume 1 only; xxxi, [1], 270, [2], [4] (ads) pp.;libary markings and private book plate, binding darkened with back free endpaper and ads detached, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature, satire, farce, RRC Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 777799
- Recueil general des sotties. Tome troisieme. (Societe des anciens textes francais)
- ISBN: NA Price: $46.18
- Publisher: Paris: Didot et Cie, Date Published: 1912
- Description: Volume 3 only; 428, [4] (ads) pp.; library markings and private book plate, original cloth lightltv rubbed with both hinges broken, text block still well sewn, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature, satire, farce, RRC Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 777800
- La poesie satirique de Clement Marot. These ... Universite de Paris.
- ISBN: NA Price: $6.84
- Publisher: Paris: Boivin &v Cie, Date Published: 1940
- Description: first edition; ix, [1], 286, [1] pp.; paper wrappers dark and margin chipped, text age toned but mostly unopened; Clement Marot, 1496-1544. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature, satire, CTT QMJ Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 812635
- Etudes Rabelaisiennes. Tome V
- ISBN: NA Price: $30.00
- Publisher: Geneve: Droz Date Published: 1964
- Description: Tome V; 207 pp., hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French Literature satire Humor dp7 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 575979
- The Rolliad, in Two Parts; Probationary Odes for the Laureateship; and Political Eclogues: with Criticisms and Illustrations. Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by the Original Authors.
- ISBN: NA Price: $473.71
- Publisher: London: Printed for J. Ridgway, Date Published: 1799
- Description: "The Twenty-first Edition"; xxxii, 524 pp., engraved frontis.; old calf with later rebacking but front cover detached and back joint split, a few age spots in text but overall clean internally, armorial book plate of Sir Francis L. H. Goodricke; a collection of verse and prose satires on William Pitt and members of his party,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, British literature, satire Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 528947
- Curtius Rescued from The Gulph; or, The Retort Courteous to the Rev. Dr. Parr, in answer to his learned pamphlet, intitled, "A Sequel," &c.
- ISBN: NA Price: $125.32
- Publisher: London: Printed for Hookham and Carpenter, Date Published: 1792
- Description: first edition; 43 pp. beginning with half title; initials of a previous owner, last leaf creased at corner, light extraction roughness at spine, still overall very good in self wrappers; the British playwright takes up the cause of Rev. Charles Curtis against Dr. Samuel Parr in order to mock Parr's overblown response to letter that seems to have been sent him as a joke by one of his own students; scarce as a first. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British literature, satire, Samuel Parr, BRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 698517
- Strambotti e sonetti dell'Altissimo per cura di Rodolfo Renier.
- ISBN: 0543743799 Price: $95.56
- Publisher: Torino: Societa Bibliofila, Date Published: 1886
- Description: first edition with the lengthy introduction by Renier, limited to 250 copies; small octavo, xlvii, 76, [2] pp., issued as Rarita bibliografiche e scritti inediti, 2; library book plates and minor markings, later full vellum soiled and bowed, else overall good and textually clean. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Italian literature, poetry, satire sam qmj Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 478637
- Mogul Tales, or, The Dreams of Men Awake: Being Stories told to Divert the Grief of the Sultana's of Guzarat, for the supposed Death of the Sultan. Now first Translated into English.
- ISBN: NA Price: $580.60
- Publisher: London : Printed by J. Applebee for J. Brindley (etc. etc.), Date Published: 1743
- Description: The Second Edition; 2 volumes; 12mo, [title leaf], [xxiii], [1], 288 pp., frontis., 2 plates + [title leaf], [viii], 238, [2] (ads) pp., frontis., 2 plates, old mottled calf binding very worn with two sides detached, general light age toning, minor worming in first volume hits a few letters, worming in early and late leaves of second volume stays mainly in margins but frontis. hit, armorial book plates of William Charles De Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam, reading set only. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: French literature Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 342644
- Chinese Tales; or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam ... By M. Gueulett. (bound with) Letters of a Peruvian Princess: with The Sequel. Translated from the French of Madame de Grafigny.
- ISBN: NA Price: $477.87
- Publisher: London: Printed for C. Cooke, Date Published: 1825
- Description: 2 titles bound as 1 and each of the titles two volumes in one; 24mo, viii, 222 pp., 3 plates; xix, [1], 185 pp., 3 plates; old calf binding badly worn with front cover detached, title of first volume and front binder’s blanks detached, margins cut down but no text touched, general light age toning. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 342654
- Ariana. In Two Parts. As it was translated out of the French, and presented to my lord Chamberlaine.
- ISBN: NA Price: $711.89
- Publisher: London: Printed by Iohn Dawson for Thomas Walkley, Date Published: 1641
- Description: "The second Edition"; quarto (slightly taller than 26.5 cm.), [2 leaves] (beginning with title, A1), 328 pp.; lacks the illustrated title, printed title sprinkled in red, lower corners nibbled on first four leaves with minor loss, large brown stain hits pages 60 and 61, last leaf holed with loss of letters, margins cut down with page numbers sometimes partially removed, later plain paper covered boards rubbed; Wing D1194. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 342655
- Hymen's Praeludia or Loves Master-peice. Being That so much admired Romance, intituled Cleopatra. In Twelve Parts. Written Originally in the French, and now Elegantly rendered into English. By Robert Loveday.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,185.63
- Publisher: London: Printed by W. R. and J. R. and sold by Peter Parker and Thomas Gu Date Published: 1674
- Description: small folio (29.5 cm. tall), [4 leaves] (beginning with title in red and black, A1), 540, 572 pp (second pagination starts with part seven); old paneled calf rubbed and worn with chip at head of spine and front cover detached, general age toning with a few spots and a few internal tips crumpled but text tight and not fragile, notes of previous owner on endpapers and blanks (he finds there are 1,032,300 words in the text), overall good+; the first six parts translated by Loveday with the others by John Coles, James Webb, and John Davis; the central character is not the Cleopatra who immediately comes to mind but her daughter; Wing L123. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 342660
- L'Eventail. Revue de litterature & d'art
- ISBN: NA Price: $321.60
- Publisher: Geneve Date Published: 1917
- Description: Volume 1, Numbers 2-7, 9, 11, 12; nine issues, small quarto, illustrated including tipped color plates, contributions by Apollinaire, Paul Fort, Andre Gide, Francois Laya (the editor), Mallarme, et al.; original paper wrappers but some back covers detached and the last issue lacking back cover, some early and late leaves browned. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: french literature Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 533070
- The Adventures of Telemachus, The Son of Ulysses by the Archbishop of Cambray. In French and English. The Original carefully compared with the best French Editions, and Revised and Corrected By Joseph Nancrede ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $538.33
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed for G. Decombaz Date Published: 1797
- Description: 2 volumes, French and English text face-to-face; library markings, general age toning and age staining, some leaves tattereed, needs rebinding, working set only, sold with all faults; Nancrede was an instructor in French at Harvard and dedicates his translation "To the American Youth of Both Sexes", . Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 650754
- Correspondence and related documents, definitive edition by Theodore Besterman. IV. July 1736 - January 1738, letters D1107-D1438.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.84
- Publisher: Geneve/Toronto: Institut et Musee Voltaire/Toronto University Press, Date Published: 1969
- Description: Volume 4 only, issued as The Complete Works of Voltaire 88; 489 pp., notes are in English, the letters are in the language they were originally written, almost always in French and not translated; jacket darkening and soiled, book near fine in original tan cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature, philosophy, French history Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 425816
- Correspondence and related documents, definitive edition by Theodore Besterman. V. February - December 1738, letters D1439-D1729. The Complete Works of Voltaire 89
- ISBN: NA Price: $35.62
- Publisher: Geneve/Toronto: Institut et Musee Voltaire/Toronto University Press, Date Published: 1969
- Description: Volume 5; 512 pp., notes are in English, the letters are in the language they were originally written, almost always in French and not translated; hardcover, very good in a good+ jacket. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature, philosophy, French history Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 552091
- Oeuvres diverses de Monsieur l'abbe de Chaulieu [et] Oeuvres diverses de M. le Marquis de La Farre.
- ISBN: NA Price: $103.60
- Publisher: Amsterdam: La Compagnie, Date Published: 1750
- Description: 2 volumes in 1, as issued (the two authors were close friends), 12mo (16.5 cm. tall); [2] (title leaf), xii, 360, [2] (La Farre title leaf), 271 pp.; modern green buckram, first title clipped and repaired at bottom margin with no loss, damp stained throughout,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature, poetry Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 382827
