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Rare and spectacular French game of aerostatic navigation from the great Age of Airships.
Rare and spectacular French game of aerostatic navigation from the great Age of Airships.
Sammelband of five French titles in one volume, including a contemporary court argument against an abusive man who employed a chastity belt to control a woman — evidently, a true account of a device frequently thought apocryphal.
Beautiful two-volume illustrated catalogue of the early (1475-1692) French books in the library of artist and collector Charles Fairfax Murray, reprinted from Davies's original 1910 edition.
Reduced fascimile of Tchemerzine's complete ten-volume work, reproducing 12 pages of the original on each page of this reprint edition.
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this introduction to the culture and people of Paris for an American audience — including meetings with Alice B. Toklas, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, William Burroughs, Mary McCarthy, Coco Chanel, and James Baldwin.