GALERIE DES ENFANS CELEBRES, OU HISTOIRE DES JEUNES GENS QUI SE SONT ILLUSTRES PAR LEURS VERTUS, LEURS TALENS, LEUR ESPRIT, LEUR GENIE, ETC., DEPUIS LE QUINZIEME SIECLE JUSQU'A NOS JOURS
by De Barins, M. le Comte
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Huzard, 1836.. 1836.. Very good. Illustrated with 4 Engraved Portraits - 12mo, full green calf (bumped, rubbed, scuffed; leather slightly chipped at corners); titled & decorated in gilt on spine with blind-stamped decorations within central panel and outer floral decorated frame in gilt on covers; marbled edges (rubbed). 240 pages (a very few minor stains; browning to last few leaves; tiny piece out from corner of one plate and small piece out from bottom edge of one leaf). Illustrated with 4 engraved portraits, each above a small vignette depicting a scene from the life of the pictured child. A very good copy of this delightful and unusual book. <p>Very scarce.<p>Biographies of individuals who came into prominence as children. Includes Kang-Hi, who ascended to the throne of China at the age of 8, Marie Stuart, Louis XIV, Sylvine d'Aubencourt, Napoleon II, Don Carlos, Torquato Tasso, etc.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8282
- Title
- GALERIE DES ENFANS CELEBRES, OU HISTOIRE DES JEUNES GENS QUI SE SONT ILLUSTRES PAR LEURS VERTUS, LEURS TALENS, LEUR ESPRIT, LEUR GENIE, ETC., DEPUIS LE QUINZIEME SIECLE JUSQU'A NOS JOURS
- Author
- De Barins, M. le Comte
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Huzard, 1836.
- Date Published
- 1836.
- Keywords
- CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; BIOGRAPHY; HISTORY; KINGS; RULERS; YOUTHS; MARY STUART; KANG-HI; LOUIS XIV; SYLVINE D'AUBENCOURT; NAPOLEON II; SON CARLOS; TORQUATO TASSO; ENGRAVED PORTRAITS; PLATES; ENGRAVINGS; ILLUSTRATIONS.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's & Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Vignette
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