Search Results: History: France from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Harper Torchback, 1962.. Soft Cover. 114 p. 20.5 cm. Paperback /good. France and Europe in the period 1550-1590. A few pencil underlinings. Stock #28,383.

Princeton UP, 1970. Soft Cover. xvii, 233 p., 20.5 cm. Translated by R.R. Palmer. Third paperback printing; first pub., 1947. Stock#31,035. Vg/ wrappers.

A Paris: Chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1791. Hard Cover. 27 p.; 22 cm. Title continues: Député, Le Révérend Père Chabot, ex-Capucin, & Député, et un Prêtre réfractaire. Reference: Martin & Walter, Révolution française, IV: 2, 4658. Very Good in marbled paper over boards. One of a collection of forty Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1041-5.

Critical bibliography of the history of Paris (France); in French. Contents include Histoire géographique; Histoire topographique; Histoire administrative; Statistique; Travaux publics; Commerce et industrie; Finances; Assistance; Lettres et sciences; Beaux-arts; Spectacles et divertissements; Justice et police; Cultes; Usages et moeurs; Index des noms d'auteurs et des ouvrages anonymes. "Originally Published Paris: 1908." vi, 153 pages; 24 cm. Bound in maroon publisher's cloth, gold spine lettering, no dust jacket (as issued); Fine. Stock#ofc0902.

NY, Sloane, 1953. Hard Cover. [ix], 405 p.; 22 cm.; endpaper map. Contents, Part 1. By way of introduction to Europe; The end of an alliance; A world we tried to build; Part 2. Dramatis personae; The mystery of France; The story of Pierre Bertaux; Germany: spring in the ruins; The story of Willi Schlieker; England: no flags for the revolution; The story of Joe Curry; Through three looking glasses; Part 3. The making of Europe; The basin of freedom; Communism-- the challenge; America abroad; Decision at Washington. Very Good / no dust jacket. Stock#NEU294.

New York, Time, inc. [c1963]. Hard Cover. 176 p. illus. (part col.) maps. 29 cm. Series: Life World Library. Stock# 40,267. Vg, illustrated boards.

NY, Putnam [1969]. Hard Cover. 479 p.; 23 cm. "About ten years later [i.e. after publishing this], the author reärranged the letters in his surname into the anagram “T. Morgan” and legally changed his name to Ted Morgan; took out American citizenship; and published a string of best-selling biographies. The book is fun, because— although the author knows France very well— he doesn’t much admire it. Good+; pencil underlining in the opening chapter; no dust jacket; Good+. Stock#47473.

"The period from 1547 to 1648 was one of the most exciting and eventful hundred years in French history. It opened against the background of the long and bloody French religious wars... and ended with the commencement of the four-and-a-half-year civil wars of the Fronde." Hardcover; xii, 509 pages; index; a bit shelf worn; dj spine sunned; VG. Stock#ofc0103.

Reproduced from typescript; vii, 166 pages; 24 cm. White covers; VG. Stock#ofc0116.

[France? Paris? 1791]. Soft Cover. 7 p.; 19.5 cm. Caption title; without imprint. Opening sentences: Nous ne voulons plus de votre constitution qui nous a ruinés. / Nous ne voulons plus de votre liberté qui n'est que pour les frippons, les voleurs et les assassins. "Nous ne voulons" is repeated 36 times at the head of each paragraph. Martin & Walter IV 2: 7306 (which specifies: Anti-révolutionnaire). One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1042-15. Very Good in marbled paper wrappers.

Paris, Calmann-Levy, n.d. [1925?]. Soft Cover. 396 p., illus., 18.5 cm. Michelet displayed "the peculiar visionary qualities which made [him] the most stimulating, but the most untrustworthy (not in facts, which he never consciously falsifies, but in suggestion) of all historians." (EB) Stock#46384. Good, well used / soft cover.

NY, Pantheon [1944]. First Edition. Soft Cover. 262 pages; 19 cm. Published 30 March 1944, before D-Day. A novel about the French Resistance by a combatant. Stock#29561. Good+, a few pencil notes/ wrappers.

Paris, Armand Colin, 1949. The first edition of a classic of history which altered the way history was conceived in the post-World War II era. Jack Hexter, in a brilliant and funny essay published in the Journal of Modern History (44: 4, December 1972), points out that Braudel's view of the longue durée developed during five years of imprisonment. Publication of this dissertation on the Mediterranean region eventually rocked the historical world. "Les sources": pages [1161]-1128. xv, 1160 pages, index, 26 cm. Lacks original paper wraps (as issued); recently bound in maroon cloth over boards, black spine label stamped in gold; Very Good. Stock#39638/house.

Paris, Flammarion [1929]. Biograpy of Henri Lacordaire (1802-1861), "French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France" (Wikipedia). Soft Cover. 219 pages; 19 cm. Good+/paper covers soiled, ink owner name on front cover. Stock#28464.

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968. 3e édition mise à jour; first published 1961. Series: Que sais-je? 923. Soft Cover. 126, [2] pages; 17.5 cm. Vg / soft cover. Stock#47286.

A Londres: Chez G. Owen T. Cadell... [i.e. Paris? s.n.], 1772. "A fictitious correspondence, attributed to the Marquis F. de Barbe-Marbois" --BLC, vol. 189, page 207. Cioranescu 21762 attributes this work to Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon. The letters in vol. 1 span the years 1753 to 1762; those in vol. 2 and vol. 3, 1746 to 1752. "Ces lettres eurent une grande vogue et furent très-souvent réimprimés; elles sont bien écrites, decentes, et ont souvent des aperçus politiques judicieux. On les regarde comme un ouvrage de jeunesse du marquis de Barbe-Marbois" --Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs a l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage / Jules Gay, IV (1872), page 286. Fictitious imprint; cf. Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte / E. O. Weller. Title-page of vol. 3: Lettres de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, depuis MDCCXLVI jusqu'a MDCCLII, inclusivement. Hard Cover. Three octavo volumes bound together: [xi], 179; 163, [16]; [xii], 151 pages; 17.5 cm. Very Good+/ bound by Dragonfly in full red… Read More

Anvil/Van Nostrand [1955].. Soft Cover. 191 p., index; 18 cm. In two parts. Part I is Kohn's seven section essay. Part II is 22 readings from Voltaire to Jaures. Stock #29,562x. Good, some foxing/ wrappers. France history criticism literature.

Rand McNally [c1968]. Hard Cover. First published by Librairie Hachette, Paris, under the title 'La Vie Quotidienne à Saint-Hélène au Temps de Napoléon'. With a Foreword by H. Montgomery Hyde. Contents include Prisoners of State; Daily Life at Longwood House; Daily Life at Plantation House; The Foreign Commissioners; Daily Life in the Army; The Daily Life of the Inhabitants; Plans of Escape; What Did Napoleon Die Of?; Bibliography. 'M. Martineau has had access to unpublished sources... He adds a detailed analysis by an English pathologist of the known facts concerning Napoleon's last illness and death... [he] is the French Consul at St Helena, living at Longwood House, and writes from personal knowledge of life on the island.' xiv, 241 p., index, map, plates, 22 cm.; dj clipped, chipped, waterstain on rear of dj, rear cover, last few pages; ink markings; good. 32937.

Bookseller catalogue listing items on the French Revolution and Buonaparte. 615 items, illus.; stapled in pictorial wraps; Good. Stock#ofc0268.

vi p., 1 leaf, 392 p., illus. (facsimiles); 21 cm. In December, 1940, 62-year-old Etta, widow of William Shiber, wire chief of the New York American and New York Evening Journal, and her French roommate in Paris, whom she had known since 1925, were arrested by the Gestapo for assisting British pilots escape to the south. She was exchanged in 1942 and wrote of Parisian resistance during the early days of Nazi rule. Stock#48033.