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Lot 129

Sale 5273 - Fine Books & Ephemera
Jan 14, 2010 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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4 vols.


4 vols.
French Travels & Soldiers in America: Comettant, Oscar. Voyage Pittoresque et Anecdotique dans le Nord et le Sud Des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Paris, 1866. Lg. 8vo, contemp. green pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered & decorated green morocco spine, a.e.g.; occasionally slightly scuffed, front joint very occasionally rubbed. With 22 steel-engraved plates (4 hand-colored), tissue guards. Scattered light foxing. 2 pp. adverts. Sound, attractive copy. Howes C-641 - describing above as "best ed." * Genty, d'Abbe (Louis). L'Influence de la Decouverte de l'Amerique sur le Bonheur du Genre-Humain. Paris, 1788. Second edition. 8vo, contemp. mottled calf, gilt-floral spine compartments, maroon morocco spine label, mottled blue endpapers; occasionally scuffed, spine ends rubbed. With frontis. & fold. map. Scattered light foxing, minor foxing to map. Modern label on verso of title page. Howes G-101. * (Marquis de Lafayette.) Vie Publique et Privee de M. le Marquis de Lafayette, avec des Details sur l'Affaire du 6 Octobre, etc. [Paris], 1791. 8vo, modern 3/4 navy blue morocco & cloth, gilt, gilt-lettered & decorated spine. Light to moderate scattered foxing. Complete with 1/2 title. Moderate foxing to 1/2 title. Untrimmed. Howes L-20; Sabin 99514. * De Smet, P(ierre)-J(ean). Missions de l'Oregon en Voyages dans les Montagnes Rocheuses en 1845 et 1846. Paris, 1848. 8vo, modern bds., orig. printed wrappers preserved; some creasing, chipping & minor dust soiling to wrapper. With additional tinted litho vignette title, frontis. + 12 tinted litho plates. Scattered, generally light to occasionally moderate, foxing. Untrimmed. Howes D-286; Sabin 82266; Wagner-Camp 141:3

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