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LOT 2230
General Books - New York - The Wonder City of the World in Gravure
1915 A.D.
12 5/8 x 10 cm (384 grams, 32.5 x 25.5 cm).
Manhattan Postcard Co. - New York, 1915, card covers, 54 pp.; repaired. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gentleman.
FootnotesSepia-coloured scenes from New York in the early 20th century.
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LOT 2230
General Books - New York - The Wonder City of the World in Gravure
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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General Books - Essai de Bibliographie Hippique - Supplément
1921 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Général Mennessier de la Lance - Paris, 1921, card covers, 64 pp. 151 grams, 25.3 x 16 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
General Books - Memoires du General Rapp, Premier Aide-de-Camp de Napoleon
1823 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
Général Rapp - Paris, 1823, marbled boards in quarter-calf binding, gilt fore edge, 439 pp; spine chipped. 494 grams, 21 x 13.2 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
First-hand account of the career of Général Jean Rapp, Napoleon's leading staff officer, written and published two years after the Emperor's death in 1821 with the series title 'Memoirs of contemporaries to support the history of the Republic and the Empire'. Rapp saved the life of the Emperor on more than one occasion, and was present at the battles of Austerlitz (1805), Jena (1806) and Borodino (1812), where he sustained several wounds. In his birthplace of Colmar a statue in his honour stands on the Champ de Mars. -
General Books - Fleurs, Fruits & Legumes du Jour
1871 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £351
Alfred le Petit - Paris, 1921, card covers, 30 loose printed cartoons in slip case depicting current (1871) political figures as flowers and vegetables, each with a short humorous verse beneath. 400 grams, 29 x 23.8 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
