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LOT 2213
General Books - Louis XV et Marie Leczinska
1900 A.D.
13 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. (3.44 kg, 34.5 x 26.3 cm).
Pierre de Nolhac - text and illustrations - Paris, 1900, 2 vols. in original cloth-covered slip case, 189pp.; handmade paper, coloured frontispiece, numerous tissue- guarded tinted plates, limited edition of 100 copies (present unnumbered marked as 'offert'); text pages uncut. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gentleman.
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General Books - Les Animaux Industrieux
1842 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
B. Allent - Paris, 1842, Seventh Edition, cloth covers, 290 pp. 249 grams, 18 x 11.5 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
General Books - L'Existence de Dieu Demontree par les Merveilles de la Nature
1725 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Paris, 1725, full calf binding with marbled endpapers, 681 pp, 1 foldout plate; one board partly detached. 1.65 kg, 26 x 20.5 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
General Books - Field Sketchbook of Lucien Jonas - Armee Anglaise
1915 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Lucien Jonas - Reproduction of the field sketchbook of Jonas subtitled 'Armée Anglaise Juin 1915' (British Army, June 1915) with studies of Sir John French, Douglas Haig, Brigadier Maurice, General Lambton and other officers, many with a location; inside front cover with listing of British and Indian regimental officers; inside back cover with list of Interpreters, French and Belgian mission officers, studies of Ypres (2) and the Pas de Calais; hardback with cloth covers (partly detached)' publisher's note to inside back cover (in French) stating that this sketchbook by the painter Jonas, who was attached to the Musée de l' Armée, has been reproduced in facsimile through Librarie Dorbon-Ainé in Paris; this volume is one of 200 monochrome offprints; with artist's manuscript initials. 799 grams, 32.2 x 24.2 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Unique first-hand study of the British Army in the early stages of the First World war.
